Man Arrested After Parking Lot Assault Results in Coma
You really have to read this story to believe it!
Oscar Fuller hit Lana Rosas so hard she fell into a coma…all because she was standing in a parking space, attempting to save it for her boyfriend.
Fuller was arrested last Tuesday on felony assault charges.
The New York Daily News reports:
“I wish I just let her hit me,” Fuller told the Daily News on Sunday. “It was out of reflex, just a reaction that went the wrong way,” he said of the Feb. 25 beatdown. “I don’t believe this is happening.”
He said he went to a birthday party following the encounter with Rosas, 25, of the Bronx, insisting he did not know she was critically injured.
“I left the incident so it would not become a bigger situation. I only hit the girl one time,” said the father of two as his lawyer, Thomas Kenniff, sat nearby.
Fuller is accused of flying into a rage when Rosas refused to budge from an E. 14th St. parking space between Avenues A and B that she was saving for her boyfriend by standing in it.
Prosecutors charge that Fuller, who stands 5-feet-7 and weighs 150 pounds, hit the 4-foot-11, 100-pound Rosas so hard she “flew off her feet” and hit her head on the ground.
She continues to battle for her life at Bellevue Hospital, where doctors removed part of her skull to relieve brain swelling.
Fuller, who works as an electrician, claimed he was acting in self-defense. He admitted getting out of his car and says that he calmly asked Rosas to step away and let him park his Plymouth Voyager.
“She began hitting me in the face,” he said. “It threw me off. It just puzzled me. She hit me like four or five times.” As the parking space standoff turned violent, Rosas’ boyfriend, Joseph Oliver, 26, was across the street preparing to make a U-turn. He jumped out of his car and ran toward Fuller.
“I saw a guy running toward me,” Fuller said. “I hit the girl, jumped into my car and pulled off.”
Pointing to an old knife wound on the right side of his face, Fuller – whose rap sheet includes arrests for assault and drug charges – said his reaction might have something to do with being jumped and cut when he was 15. “You never know what might happen,” he said, blaming his street-survival instincts for provoking his fist.
He was arrested Tuesday after cops traced his license plate number to his Jamaica home. Witnesses subsequently picked him out in a lineup. He was released Saturday on $100,000 bail.
Wow. Ok. First of all I have I’m not sure that a PARKING SPACE is justification for causing bodily injury to someone. This guy clearly has a lot of pent up anger and frustration for him to lose it like this! I think he needs to be evaluated…..what could have possibly been SO important that you felt the need to ASSUALT a woman….in BROAD daylight? It’s amazing how fast your life can change…in just a few moments if you had made a different decision. The moral of this story is to just to be safe people…you never know when you may come across someone’s “SNAPPED moment.” However, I have few questions I’d like you all to help me answer…..
1. Can you really stand in the middle of a parking space in a busy city and wait for a car to arrive?
2. How many witnessness actually can corroborate Fuller’s story about self-defense?
3. How many of you have EVER experienced ROAD RAGE? How did you handle the situation?
