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Victim Miguel Colon
Mark St. Pierre, a 36-year-old electronics store worker with a rap sheet featuring 15 prior arrests and convictions on assault and drug charges, allegedly crashed into seven cars and injured at least nine people during the high-speed incident, ultimately killing one: Miguel Colon, 36, who was walking his 6-year-old son Sebastian back to his ex-wife's Baychester home after a bike riding lesson. Colon was able to push Sebastian out of the way before St. Pierre killed him in his 2008 Infiniti sedan; he then kept driving, hitting five more cars and only stopping when, according to one witness, "His car was all smashed up. And he could not go further."
Police say the 1.37-mile rampage started when St. Pierre assaulted his former companion in the parking lot of a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant, after an argument sparked by his attempt to take their 3-year-old daughter away from a party. He hit two cars while leaving the parking lot, and sped off down East Gun Hill Road, allegedly blowing through red lights with a sickening disregard for life. Another witness recounted to the Times, "You couldn’t tell what kind of car it was. He was going so fast."
Colon, a cell phone store clerk, had recently remarried and was saving up for the honeymoon. His distraught sister, Kisha Colon, tells the Daily News, "When I heard they got the guy [St. Pierre], it meant nothing to me. I want to ask him, 'How can you do this?' He has no soul. He took a precious life and ruined many others." Colon's stepfather, Rafael Cruz, says, "That man does not care about others' lives. There is no punishment enough."
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what a scumbag. its amazing he got 1.5 miles without a siren going off. rot in jail, fuckface
why is it amazing he got 1.3 miles without a siren going off???
This didn't happen in manhattan (cop on everyother street). A driver could do twice as much damage and gone twice as far in some parts of this city before getting caught.
well, too bad he didnt mow down all those cars and that man with his leg up on a subway seat at three am. there woulda been a good six cops on his ass in no time
(obviously im being completely serious 100% of the time)
(and im obviously being completely 100% of the time.)
He had 15 prior arrests on assaults and drug charges? Why is it always people who should have been in jail in the first place who do shit like this? And how are they only charging him with manslaughter? I'd call it murder 2. He seems to have been trying to kill someone.
Because he did it with his car, of course.
Right. In the State of New York a car is not considered a weapon. a broom on the other hand will get you shot dead by cops.
Something doesn't make sense ... an ex-con who works as a store clerk, yet he has a 2008 Infiniti? Those are expensive luxury cars. How did he afford it?
The victim was the cell phone salesman.
My guess is that he lives rent free with a relative or girlfriend and spends all his money on lease and insurance payments for the Infinity.
Using drug or gang money.
"That man does not care about others' lives. There is no punishment enough."
Actually there is, but NY wussed out a couple of years ago and abolished the death penalty.
Jail for life is a far more severe punishment.
Jail for life is a far more severe punishment.
For whom? The criminal or the tax payers?
Americans always complain about taxes, taxes, taxes. Then they say America is the best country on this earth. Then they complain that everything is too expensive. Then they say capitalism is much better then socialism. Then they start wars with other countries and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fund it. etc etc etc.
But, back to the prisoner issue...The solution is not to kill our prisoners. Inevitably innocents will be murdered with the death penalty, as has been the case on many occasions already.
If you've never visited a jail, or even better, spent a night in jail, I suggest you do so. The life you live rotting in a jail cell is far more miserable than the life one loses when executed.
Is that why the defendant's lawyer always tries to argue for life in prison instead of execution? Because they want to make their client's life more miserable?
This is one more instance where the State is totally and completely negligent allowing a career criminal out into the streets to reoffend and in this terrible incident, to kill a good guy who saved his child from his own fate. Career criminals need to be buried away for life and this guy St. Pierre needs to be on Death Row.
I don't know why people are dissing this guy. All he wanted to do was live like he was in a video game. We all have dreams.
weak.
The judge needs to throw the book at this guy, then leap over the bench, pick up the book, and beat him to death with it.
I want to ask him, 'How can you do this?'
I doubt you'd get any kind of satisfactory answer. You won't even get shame from this guy. Guilt requires possession of a conscience.
What ever happened to the three strikes ruling?
That applies to felonies. If he plead down to minor charges, it doesn't count.
BTW, it's 15 prior arrests and convictions. However, arrests don't count in sentencing.
They would never let me be a judge. While being against governmental homicide, I would feel perfectly justified in expeditiously handing him over to the victim's family to do with as they see fit. Were he to survive, they could give him back to me to put him in the slammer for life.