The man accused of repeatedly stabbing an East Harlem McDonald’s employee sobbed into his lawyer’s shoulder throughout his first court docket look Wednesday — the place a choose set his bail at $150,000.
Ezekiel Dunn-Jennings, 28, sniffled and shook his head throughout the temporary listening to in Manhattan Criminal Court, as an legal professional with Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem patted him on the again.
Dunn-Jennings, who had his fingers cuffed behind his again and a big bandage round his pinky finger, is charged with tried homicide, assault and weapons possession within the grisly March 9 assault.
Prosecutors say Dunn-Jennings went berserk contained in the fast-food joint on Third Avenue close to East 117th Street at round 12:40 a.m. — stabbing Mickey D’s employee Angel Miguel Salazar a minimum of seven instances.
Dunn-Jennings acquired into an argument with staffers on the restaurant and began “cursing” and “threatening to punch and kill” them, Assistant District Attorney Ashley Maldonado De La Fuente mentioned throughout the arraignment.
He then taunted Salazar to return out of the kitchen and hit him — and the 23-year-old hero emerged with a broomstick to defend his co-workers.
The two got here to blows, and Dunn-Jennings allegedly repeatedly knifed Salazar, who remains to be hospitalized.
“He has to pay for what he did,” Salazar instructed The Post by cellphone from his hospital mattress on Tuesday, after Dunn-Jennings turned himself in.
One of Dunn-Jennings’ attorneys, Lisa Freedman, famous that her consumer had surrendered to authorities as she requested Judge Anna Lewis to free him on supervised launch.
Friedman argued that Dunn-Jennings doesn’t have a “substantial criminal record” and that he “always comes to court.”
Dunn-Jennings — who has 4 prior arrests, for assault, prison mischief and menacing — cried as one other legal professional, Matthew Daloisio, tried to consolation him.
The ADA mentioned {that a} “large portion of the crime” was captured on surveillance video and that bloody pants have been discovered within the suspect’s house — lower than three blocks from the McDonald’s — as she requested for $150,000 bail.
Dunn-Jennings had claimed he acted in self-defense as he was walked out of the twenty fifth Precinct late Tuesday morning, saying, “I was hit in the head. I was attacked first.”
“I’m sorry what happened to that man,” he added when requested if he regretted his alleged actions. “He was a handsome man. I didn’t mean to hurt him.”
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