3rd Suspect in Taxi Driver Shooting: "I'm Just So Sorry"

2008_08_taxishooting.jpgThe third woman suspected in the Brooklyn shooting-robbery of taxi driver Enois Malbranche turned herself in this morning. WABC 7 reports Ivana Pittman, 18, will be arraigned on attempted murder charges tomorrow morning.

Last Thursday, 62-year-old Malbranche picked up three women who refused to pay their $9.80 fare and shot him in the eye (with the bullet exiting the other eye). Malbranche, who is in stable condition, also said they attempted to rob him. April Pierce, 19, and Erica Belgrave, 20, surrendered to the police earlier this week.

Before surrendering, Pittman apparently decided to take her side of the incident to the Daily News. In the exclusive interview, Pittman said one of the two others was the shooter and that the shooter was upset she didn't get any money. Pittman said she was "so sorry," "It was disgusting. Somebody's just been hurt, could have died for all we know. All you thinking about was the little bit of money he had. That's somebody's father, grandfather. That could have been mine. He didn't deserve this." Pittman's lawyer says that they welcome a polygraph test.

However, Malbranche's son said,"The damage is already done. They can apologize as many times as they want. I'm still upset. They should have known before what would happen if they used a gun. They don't care."

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"so sorry" she and her scumbag friends got busted and ruined their worthless lives even more?

Forty years each. Because they are "so sorry".

Sorry is not a consecuence! Imbecile!
pick your friends better, when you decide to go out an rob a person! Piece of idiot.

Ivana, April, and Erica: may you rot in hell as soon as possible.

I am so sorry I want to see those skanks' heads on a spike

Over a $9.80 fare?! Ridiculous. I'm thankful that the taxi driver will live and more importantly that these 3 were caught so that they and their negligent families face the harsh reality of their actions.

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we either cage animals or we put them down. i vote to cage them for life, no parole.

I hear each one of them is saying that they weren't the shooter. These women are a disgrace to humanity.

They should throw them in a men's prison, they'll get what they deserve then.

Agreed #8, throw them in Rikers, then they be really 'sorry.'

They had to have pre meditiated this little episode... this is where their "sorry" asses hang out to dry

Dear Thug:

Nice lines! Still needs some work - good news is, you'll have 40 or 50 years in a cell to just kind of sit with it and see where revisions take it.

I like the 'could've been my father, my grandfather' stuff. I'd love to see it again in, say, 15 years to see what you've brought to it at that point.

Always sorry about the fact it happened.

Hey come on people she said she was sorry. He can always get a cane and sell pencils. Seeing is so overrated.

14's actually sort of right. Each day this rotten planet presents me with more and more crap I simply don't need to see. Deaf, dumb, blind, or dead ain't such a depressing notion. To me at least.

Thats awesome you try to rob of all pppl a cab driver since every knows they are rich and then you compound the problem by shooting him. I know our education system sucks but maybe we need to teach common sense in schools

"shot him in the eye (with the bullet exiting the other eye)"


Huh? Magic Bullet Theory?

Now that we send people overseas to be tortured can't we arrange to send these three young c*nts to Botswana for some good ol' fashioned genital mutilation?.

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