An irate Uber Eats driver slugged two sisters exterior their Bronx jewellery retailer – knocking one unconscious – when a Thanksgiving Eve battle over their supply turned violent, based on cops and one of many victims.
Stiverlyn Abreu, 22, stated she and her 18-year outdated sister Camil Abreu ordered $68 value of meals and paper merchandise to the Jazmin Jewellery store in Kingsbridge Heights round 3 p.m. Wednesday, and requested that the deliveryman convey their gadgets inside the shop.
However he refused — even when the sisters repeatedly buzzed him in — and obtained indignant Camil got here exterior to confront him, stated the teenager, who works part-time at her older sibling’s retailer on Jerome Avenue close to East 204th Road.
“He begins like, making enjoyable [of me], getting near me, like he’s attempting to sq. up with me, like, he’s attempting to throw punches as quickly as I stated one thing,” she informed The Submit in a telephone interview Friday.
When Stiverlyn then went out and informed the deliveryman to convey the order inside, he replied: “I don’t have to do that,” Camil stated.
“Then he proceeded to say that he was a part of a sure gang,” she recalled. “He saved mentioning them and my sister [said], ‘I’ll simply cancel the order.’ Like, I’ll simply name Uber Eats and, like, allow them to know what occurred.”
Because the obvious threats continued, Stiverlyn tried to seize the baggage, Camil stated.
However the seething deliveryman wouldn’t hand over simply – and pushed Stiverlyn’s hand, inflicting the baggage to fall to the bottom, based on Camil.
“We nonetheless didn’t do something as a result of we weren’t attempting to the touch him,” Camil stated. “We have been simply not attempting to get near him. And so then… he takes the groceries that we paid for. He takes the groceries and he’s attempting to depart.”
The sisters ran after him – realizing that the jewellery retailer keys had fallen inside one of many baggage – because the deliveryman allegedly spewed extra threats, based on Camil.
“We simply saved saying, ‘I don’t care,’ like, attempting to, like, hush him off, like, make him go away,” the teenager recalled. “That’s when he rotated. He hit my sister two instances within the face, after which he hit her one time in her jaw line. That’s when she dropped to the ground.”
After allegedly punching Stiverlyn, Camil stated “I saved attempting to hit him with the keys, and I did, and I obtained to punch him one time within the face.”
“That’s when he additionally punched me. He punched me at the back of my neck.”
Stiverlyn suffered a concussion and was hospitalized for a few hours earlier than being launched, her sister stated.
“Her mouth was busted, and…her face was swollen,” Camil stated.
The deliveryman obtained away with the sisters’ order – together with a gallon of milk, a crimson bell pepper, cooked salami jamonada, an avocado, an onion, carrots, plantains, pasta, Lays potato chips and two Bounty paper towel rolls, Camil stated.
The broad-daylight assault spoiled Thanksgiving plans for the Abreu sisters – particularly Stiverlyn, who slept for many of the day.
“She’s the kind of particular person [who] cares so much about her face,” Camil stated. “So the truth that she has a swollen face, and…scratches on her face, she didn’t actually wish to be seen.”
It was additionally tough for Stiverlyn to benefit from the Thanksgiving Day feast due to accidents to her mouth, her sister stated.
“It’s nonetheless, like, form of onerous for her to eat as a result of she will’t actually open her mouth. So we didn’t get to see her on Thanksgiving as a result of she didn’t wish to be seen.”
Camil didn’t must be handled on the hospital, although the assault triggered some ache on the left facet of her head, she stated.
The assault has left her and Stiverlyn — who’ve lived within the Bronx for seven years — afraid to go exterior, she stated.
“I’m solely taking cabs proper now. I don’t actually wish to take your prepare or, like, go exterior,” Camil stated. “Ever because it occurred, that is my first time going exterior of my home, as a result of I needed to come right here to the jewellery retailer for Black Friday.”
As for Stiverlyn, Camil stated: “My sister doesn’t wish to come exterior.”
“She doesn’t actually wish to be seen,” Camil added. “And in addition she’s like, form of afraid. As a result of [the suspect] threatened that he would come again when he was leaving.”
The NYPD launched surveillance video of the suspect and described him as about 5-foot-9, with a slim construct, lengthy braided hair, and a beard.
He was final seen sporting a blue Yankee hat, blue jacket, blue denims, and white and black sneakers.
Anybody with data on the crime is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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