Sex fiend who nearly killed NYC man with sucker punch freed without bail:
A convicted sex offender who allegedly cold-cocked a man on a Bronx street — leaving him in a coma with brain injuries — was freed without bail Thursday after getting his attempted-murder charges reduced in the unprovoked attack.
Bui Van Phu, 55, was instead charged by the Bronx District Attorney’s Office with assault and harassment, both misdemeanors, for the brutal knockout punch last Friday that left 52-year-old Jesus Cortes unconscious on the street, according to a criminal complaint.
The victim required brain surgery and is now in a medically induced coma, authorities said.
The new charges against Phu are not bail eligible, and a Bronx judge cut him loose on supervised release at his arraignment Thursday, a spokesperson for the DA’s Office said.
The NYPD had charged Phu with attempted murder after arresting him Wednesday for the attack that appeared to have come out of the blue.
“The police charged him with Attempted Murder and when we got the case we evaluated and charged based on evidence we had,” a DA’s Office spokesperson said. “The investigation is continuing.”
Phu allegedly confessed the crime to his parole officer, according to the complaint against him. --->READ MORE HERE
Three charged after NYPD releases video of brutal beatdown that killed NYC cabbie Kutin Gyimah:
Two men and a teenage girl turned themselves into police and were charged Thursday in connection with the brutal beating death of Queens taxi driver Kutin Gyimah as new video emerged of the deadly attack, police said.
Austin Amos and Nickolas Porter, both 20, surrendered to cops at the 101st Precinct in Queens late Wednesday for allegedly skipping out on a taxi fare and fatally beating Gyimah after he chased after them for the money early Saturday.
Porter was charged with gang assault and theft of service while Amos was hit with theft of service, assault, gang assault and manslaughter raps for allegedly delivering the final blow that killed Gyimah, a 52-year-old father of four.
Later Thursday, a 15-year-old girl sought in connection to the deadly attack also turned herself in. She was charged with gang assault and theft of services. Two other suspects, believed also to be teenage girls, are still wanted in connection with the incident, police said.
“My husband was a good man. He was everything we had… he was the only one I looked up to and now his life has just been cut short just like that,” Gyimah’s wife, Abigail Barwuah said at a press conference at her home Thursday. --->READ MORE HERE
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