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

The 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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By Jen Chung in News on August 14, 2008 4:53 PM

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Brooklyn

yo fuck everybody on here and their fucked up comments, niccas is saying good for these girls and shit like go to hell real soon.... ya motherfuckers could die slow, i understand wat the other two girls did was wrong and that all three of them should be punished but Ivana is my little sister people, she did nothing wrong but hung out with the wrong crowd for a night... ya mothafuckers expect everybody to be perfect when in fact aint none of us perfect, were all a failed experiment and i wish i could here about all of yall mistakes so i could laugh in all yall dirty ass mothafuckin faces, because trust me the time is coming..... now my sister wasnt the shooter and she apologized and all yall mothafuckers want her to do is rot in hell, do yall understand she never knew her friend had bullets in the gun or would pull the trigger, yes she knew she was gonna rob da old punk ass man who could handle three females but she never expected to for anyone to get hurt......technically u kno how many mothafuccers i robbed without hurting them, trust me if da gun was in my sister's hand it would have been with out a doubt a robbery charge not attempted murder....so i would like for u assholes to lightin up on my sister, niggas was raised in bed stuy brooklyn where shits happening constantly happening, you cant blame us for our losses on life we show no remorse because growin up we were shown no remorse and for the record my sister's no thug or an animal, i dont care wat u say about the other two animals after the shooting why do u think my sister was the last one to get arrested, she ran off her own way because she was scared, she knew wat just happened but she didnt......so please all im asking is for yall to ease up on her she's in a very fucced up situation have some fuckin respect

Future Taliban

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?.

Seizure

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

Huh? Magic Bullet Theory?

whantmoore

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

TheKlaus

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.

Pull My Finger

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

Steven

Always sorry about the fact it happened.

PTG in nyc

Eye for an eye...

everyAframe

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.

Fritzdecat

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

Rocknrope

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

breaknight

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.

ed_Extinct

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

sblendid

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.