The bat-wielding man accused of pummeling a good Samaritan who tried to cease him from abusing his canine within the Bronx allegedly admitted, “I beat his ass,” prosecutors mentioned — because the suspect’s sister maintained Tuesday he was harmless and appearing in self protection.
Rubin Bartley, 34, was charged with tried homicide for bludgeoning 35-year-old Marlon Hay – who remained hospitalized in a medically induced coma – throughout a combat Sunday afternoon at East one hundred and thirty fifth Street and Third Avenue in Mott Haven, cops mentioned.
“I beat him,” Bartley admitted to police, in line with the legal criticism towards him. “I beat his ass.”
The suspect was allegedly placing his arms across the neck of his 1-year-old feminine Doberman blended breed when Hay tried to intervene, in line with police sources.
But then Bartley allegedly turned his consideration to Hay, punching and knocking him to the bottom, in line with sources and prosecutors.
The two males started grappling on the bottom, and in some unspecified time in the future, Bartley allegedly grabbed the bat and beat Hay to a bloody pulp, authorities mentioned.
Surveillance footage confirmed him utilizing the bat to repeatedly hit Hay within the face, head, chest and groin whereas he laid on the bottom, in line with the criticism.
“He decided to do what we all should do as humans and look out for animals as well as people,” Hay’s sister-in-law Eunette Baronette, 44, advised The Post of her injured relative.
“And look what happened to him. He stepped in, and it could have cost him his life,” Baronette added. “Now he’s not doing well.”
Bartley’s older sister, nevertheless, denied that her brother had been beating his canine, and accused Hay of being the aggressor.
“My brother was outside walking his dog. And I’ve seen my brother – my brother raised pit bulls and Rottweilers and things of that nature. And yeah, he’s a little rough, but he’s not abusive,” April Pringle, who lives in Maryland, advised The Post.
“And then the guy, I guess, intervened and asked him, you know, why he’s abusing the dog. They had words,” Pringle added. “They fought, and [Hay] went in his car to go get a bat, and my brother went to [get] the bat and took it and beat him with it. What would you have done?”
“So he defended himself, and I would have done the same thing,” she argued. “My brother is written up like he’s a monster.”
Hay misplaced a number of enamel within the assault and suffered bleeding to his brow, lips, mouth, and nostril, in addition to cuts on his brow and lips, and bruising and swelling on his face and eyes, prosecutors mentioned.
He was intubated at Lincoln Medical Center Tuesday afternoon, and his face was swollen and crusted with dried blood.
A nurse mentioned it stays to be seen whether or not Hay suffered any lasting injury – cognitive or different in any other case – through the beating.
“For him to put his life in danger, I really think [that’s] something needs to be highlighted,” Baronette, his sister-in-law, mentioned.
“He’s the one who came out hurt the most, and he should be highlighted in a positive manner,” she mentioned. “It will inspire a lot of people to go out and do the same thing. We’re proud of him.”
Baronette added that her badly-injured relative had nothing however “good intentions,” being an animal lover himself.
“We all have animals as pets, and that’s just how we grew up, to love animals,” she mentioned. “He has always been an animal lover. He has a pit bull. He’s not doing too well in the hospital, given the situation.”
The canine was not critically injured, and was introduced by cops to the Center for Animal Care and Control for medical therapy by cops, sources mentioned.
Bartley was ordered held on $25,000 money bail or $75,000 bond throughout his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court Monday. His subsequent listening to within the case is about for Thursday.
His lawyer, Angel G. Frau, declined to remark when reached by The Post Tuesday,
Bartley was beforehand arrested for legal mischief and legal trespass within the Bronx in late June, data present.
Additional reporting by Tina Moore
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