Woman mows down her cousin over Facebook fight over love-interest
A woman from New York allegedly mowed down her own cousin twice with a minivan over a Facebook-fueled catfight over a man.
The victim, 21-year-old Giselle Penagos 21,was left lying helpless in the middle of a busy road on a freezing night, requiring emergency surgery to fix a broken leg and shattered pelvis.
Luckily, an unidentified man rescued Penagos as she lay bleeding in the street and rushed her to her father's house in Queens.
It all happened after she and her cousin Melanie Spanopoulos had started arguing over a man on Facebook.
"If it wasn't for the good Samaritan, she could very easily have been hit by another car," Nassau County Detective Sgt. Robert Galgano told the New York Post.
It was freezing outside and Penagos, unable to move due to her injuries, might also have died of exposure.
"I don't know what to say, it was just crazy. I was so scared," said Penagos.
After watching a New York Jets game at a bar, Spanopoulos - whose Facebook page notes that her favorite activities are "getting drunk" and "speaking gibberish" - and Penagos headed home together in the same car.
Galgano said that's when one of the girls found out the other one was in touch with a potential love interest on Facebook.
Spanopoulos' lawyer, Dennis Lemke, said the man refused Penagos' friend request but accepted one from his client. That's when the fight started.
Spanopoulos pulled off the parkway onto a dark street near Elmont Avenue and Penagos got out.
When Penagos refused to get back in the van, Spanopoulos allegedly leaped out and the pair wrestled each other to the ground. The suspect then hopped behind the wheel and plowed into her cousin with the van, cops said. She then allegedly put the vehicle in reverse and smashed into her a second time.
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