{"id":60232,"date":"2025-07-12T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60232\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T18:33:10","slug":"nyc-college-student-in-parking-spot-brawl-leaves-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60232\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC college student in parking spot brawl leaves neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queens woman allegedly beaten over a parking spot by a foul-mouthed mother-daughter pair<\/a> is moving out of the neighborhood days after the violent episode \u2014 even after about 100 people rallied outside the home of the accused attackers in a show of support for the victim.<\/p>\n

Jada McPherson, 21, is leaving her Ridgewood apartment Saturday for good, she told The Post, claiming her leasing company offered to relocate her after the horrifying video of her attack went viral.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people had jumped me over a parking space. It was racially motivated because they kept pulling my hair and calling me racial slurs such as monkey and a slave,\u201d McPherson had said of the attack, which was caught on video.<\/p>\n

Only one neighbor came to Jada McPherson\u2019s aid during the attack, she said. Dorian Geiger\/NY Post<\/p>\n

Just one day earlier, about 100 people, including some who drove from Long Island, turned out at the scene of the attack to back McPherson, with some rally goers wearing T-shirts that read \u201cProtect Black Women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adis Kurbegovic, the lone neighbor who jumped in to stop the fray while other witnesses simply recorded the assault, was also at the rally.<\/p>\n

The drama unfolded when McPherson tried to park in front of the home of Andreea Dumitru, 45, and her 21-year-old daughter Sabrina Starman at Putnam and Onderdonk avenues.<\/p>\n

Instead of letting McPherson park, the women and a mystery man tried to block her car with a garbage can.<\/p>\n

\u201c10 years\u2026they\u2019re doing like this with the garbage cans like 10 years,\u201d Kurbegovic, 42, a housekeeper, told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel bad, I told them a couple of times, you can do this. \u2018Yeah, yeah, my son is sick, this and that, I need to bring him up.\u2019 Yeah, you park and bring your car when you need to go to the doctor, bring your son down, and you pick him up with the car. When you come back, leave the car on the street, bring the kid upstairs, and then look for the parking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adis Kurbegovic tried to intervene but couldn\u2019t fight after a recent surgery, he said. Dorian Geiger\/NY Post<\/p>\n

Kurbegovic, who recently underwent surgery and is using a cane, tried to de-escalate the situation with words.<\/p>\n

But the \u201ccrazy\u201d trio quickly resorted to fisticuffs and began wailing on McPherson with closed fists while hurling vile racial slurs.<\/p>\n

The trio also pulled on McPherson\u2019s hair so hard they ripped a chunk out of her head, the victim claimed.<\/p>\n

Andreea Dumitru and daughter Sabrina Starman have allegedly been hoarding parking spaces for years. I-am-Mihnea\/Reddit<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the only one that helped. He gave me water and everything after the situation,\u201d McPherson recalled. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll these neighbors that are inside right now were outside recording \u2026 They watched the whole fight go down, basically.\u201d<\/p>\n

McPherson had never met her attackers before the incident, and said the brawl erupted when she told them they weren\u2019t allowed to hold parking spots.<\/p>\n

About 100 people rallied in Ridgewood to show support for McPherson. Dorian Geiger\/NY Post<\/p>\n

It was the man \u2014 who has yet to be identified \u2014 who escalated the situation, she alleged.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe blew up really fast,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

McPherson, originally of Brooklyn, declined medical attention after the fight but said she now plans to visit a hospital.<\/p>\n

Felix Ortiz told The Post: \u201cIf that was my family member, I\u2019d be the last person they\u2019d probably see. Like, seriously, because, you know, it\u2019s just, it\u2019 a female.\u201d Dorian Geiger\/NY Post<\/p>\n

Starman and Dumitru were later arrested and charged with\u00a0first degree assault\u00a0<\/a>and second degree harassment, police said.\u00a0Neither answered the door Friday.<\/p>\n

The incoming college senior said she was astounded by the rally and said the attack ultimately \u201cbrought the community together more even as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ridgewood resident and father\u00a0Felix Ortiz, 42, called the attack \u201cdisgusting,\u201d adding the video struck a nerve after his own family members were impacted by domestic violence.<\/p>\n

Brandi Fuller drove in from Long Island to attend the rally. Dorian Geiger\/NY Post<\/p>\n

If the accused attackers are so concerned about parking they should leave the Big Apple, Ortiz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy uncle lives in Connecticut, he has his own property, you know why? He was tired of looking for a parking space in New York. So he found a solution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s what you want, your own parking spot, save up your money and go get a house and get property. In Connecticut, or in New Jersey, or anywhere that you can get property, hey, move to Long Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brandi Fuller, a mid-30s loss prevention worker, drove from Long Island to attend the rally and wanted McPherson to know, \u201cI\u2019m here for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

McPherson had never encountered the trio before the attack. Dorian Geiger\/NY Post<\/p>\n

Brooklyn chef\u00a0Laniya Murray, 25, made the trek from East New York and called the entire incident \u2014 including bystanders who chose to film instead of help McPherson \u2014 \u201cdisappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt made me feel like people don\u2019t care about protecting black women. It made feel really bad about the fact that people were watching and nobody did anything or came up or even used their voices.\u00a0I feel like it takes 20 seconds to see if a fight has a weapon involved, and it was very clear that that fight didn\u2019t have a weapon,\u201d said Murray, who is also black.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it would have been very easy to go and break it up after it continued, and even after she hit the floor, three people are hurting her at one time. So it really just felt like we\u2019re unprotected, and people don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens woman allegedly beaten over a parking spot by a foul-mouthed mother-daughter pair is moving out of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,43648,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,20034,4413,34621,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-60232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-mad-brawls","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-parking","tag-queens","tag-ridgewood","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114841702034903521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}