Tag: Crime

Self-defense!

The black man who beat a Hispanic woman into a coma during an argument over a parking space in Manhattan, now wishes he’d just let her hit him.

Oscar Fuller, a 35-year-old, 150-pound father of two, is now claiming self-defense.

He says Lana Rosas hit him first before he landed a punch on her jaw, sending the 4ft 11in, 100 pound woman crumpling to the ground. The punch knocked 25-year-old Rosas out cold as she hit her head on the concrete. She has been in a coma at Bellevue Hospital ever since the February 25 incident.

The argument ensued when Fuller steered his Plymouth Voyager into a parking space in East Village only to find Rosas standing there holding the space for her boyfriend, Joseph Oliver, who was making a U-turn across the street. When Rosas refused to move and let Fuller have the parking spot, he got out of his car to confront her.

Fuller was charged with felony assault and released on $100,000 bond during a court hearing yesterday. He’s now expressing regret for ever laying hands on the woman for his cowardly behavior, all over a parking spot.

Despite expressing regret and remorse, it was a different Fuller who attempted to get away after the incident. Luckily, a citizen witnessed the incident and wrote down his license plate number.

He has prior arrests for assault and drug possession. Fuller’s next court date is on April 7.

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Who wants to post bail for Afrika Owes…a 17 year old prep-school student (pictured above), who is being held on Rikers’ Island for allegedly running guns and drugs for her boyfriend, who is apart of a 137th street gang in Harlem.

And because Africa refuses to “snitch” on her boyfriend and his crew, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has rejected Rev. Calvin Butts and Abyssinian Baptist church’ offer to post or reduce the teen’s $50,000 bail.

“The judge does not understand,” Butts said. “The poor man has been confused because he has come face-to-face with the body of Christ. When the body of Christ stands up, it confuses people.”

The prep-school teen is not cooperating with authorities out of misplaced loyalty to her boyfriend, Jaquan Layne, aka “Jay Cash” or simply “Jay” who is said to be the head of the crew; and is the lead name in the indictment. Most of the 137th street crew gang members (including Africa’s boyfriend) are still at large.

Raised in Harlem, NY and a young teen with promise, Africa was a member of Abyssinian Baptist Church and its choir. The Rev. Calvin Butts compared Owes to Patty Hearst, the heiress who was kidnapped by radicals in 1974 and joined her captors in robbing banks.