The “neighbor … saw the victim was bleeding profusely and asked what happened,” Assistant District Attorney Sean Flatow told Judge Marva Brown at Hernandez’s arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.

“The victim responded, ‘She stabbed me,’ ” Flatow continued, adding that Santos told his neighbor, “I’m going to pass out,” before collapsing seconds later.

Hernandez, 44, is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing of the 47-year-old Santos in his sixth-floor apartment on W. 147th St. near Frederick Douglass Blvd. in Harlem on Sunday. She was ordered held without bail following her arraignment.

Earlier Sunday, officers responded to Santos’ apartment for reports of yelling and fighting. Neighbors called police a second time, about 1:45 p.m., after hearing screams ring out from the unit, Flatow said.

Police arrived to find Santos with two stab wounds to his chest and one to his left arm, and medics rushed him to Harlem Hospital, where he died, according to the prosecutor.

The suspect met officers covered in blood and wearing only her panties and bra in the hallway outside Santos’ apartment, insisting throughout numerous interviews that the victim had stabbed himself.

When investigators confronted her with the neighbor’s account of Santos’ final moments, she amended her story, saying the victim had told her he would blame her for the attack while stabbing himself, Flatow said.

Flatow shared additional testimony from a downstairs neighbor who told police he’d overheard Hernandez whisper in Spanish to Santos, “Don’t tell anybody who stabbed you or they’ll take me to jail.”

Santos and Hernandez met in the city’s shelter system several years ago and lived together for about two years before his death, according to Flatow.

Hernandez — who appeared in court with a black eye — told investigators that her relationship with the victim was marred by domestic violence, the prosecutor said.

Flatow noted that prior to Sunday’s stabbing, the only incident on record was from several months ago, when Santos called 911 after his girlfriend threatened to leap from a window.

An attorney for Hernandez told the judge that in addition to her black eye, his client had bruises throughout her body and previously had requested that surveillance cameras be installed in the apartment to protect herself from his repeated acts of violence.

“She asked that those cameras be installed because of the decedent’s history of violence against her,” Wilfredo Santa Ana told Judge Brown. “We are hoping those cameras recorded what she says occurred inside that apartment.

“This may very well be a case where the prosecution ultimately decides to dismiss the charges once that video becomes available to the defense,” Santa Ana added.

Hernandez has been convicted in multiple assaults since moving to the States from Puerto Rico in 2009, including once for attacking two women at a shelter in Connecticut where she kicked a woman who was eight months pregnant in the stomach, according to Flatow.

When asked why she attacked the women, Hernandez told police, “They were b—–s,” the prosecutor said.

The 22-year-old woman was working alone at the Total by Verizon shop on Madison Ave. near E. 108th St. when a man walked in around 12 p.m. Sunday.

“He acted like a customer at first,” Riaz Fahim, a sales representative at the store, told the Daily News on Monday. “We need to be friendly with everyone. She was being friendly and suddenly the guy started to touch her.”

When the victim asked the man to “move away,” he flew off the handle, according to Fahim, 24.

“She had coffee in her hand and she was trying to throw it at him,” he said. “She couldn’t do it and the guy chased her.”

The attacker followed her into a back room where he threw her to the ground and threatened her with a knife, police said.

The attacker tried to rape her, but her screaming carried outside, according to Fahim.

“She was screaming a lot,” he said. “In this store specifically, we always open this door. This door is always open so if someone is screaming, anyone can hear it.”

The man, apparently spooked, ran off, grabbing three phones and $1,000 from the store on his way out.

The woman sought medical help after the attack, but was not seriously injured. She has lived in the city for about a year after moving from Bangladesh, Fahim said.

“As far as I know, she’s traumatized,” said Fahim. “For her, it’s been only one year she’s in the States.”

Police are still searching for the woman’s attacker, who fled east on E. 108th St. toward Park Ave. after the assault.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

Amber Lohr, 36, and the students were shopping for souvenirs as they neared the corner of W. 43rd St. and Eighth Ave. just before 6:15 p.m. Saturday. Her teen daughter was among the group the day before Mother’s Day.

As Lohr and the group approached the Port Gourmet Deli, 61-year-old Cyril Destin sat on a walker outside the entrance, cops said.

He pulled his left hand out of the inner breast pocket of his jacket and abruptly stood up, surveillance video shows.

With a sharp object in his hand, he lunged toward Lohr, who immediately began stumbling backward, the footage shows. Even still, she heroically remained by the students and urged them to back away, her husband said.

Destin sat back down on the walker and appeared to take a drag on a cigarette, according to the footage.

“She is completely traumatized,” the victim’s husband, John Lohr, exclusively told the Daily News on Monday. “We never want to go back to NYC ever again.”

Even as she bled with a near-mortal wound, she refused to abandon the kids, according to the spouse.

“My wife not only had taken the stabbing but should also be considered a hero by remaining in front of the children coaching them to go backwards without turning around,” John Lohr said.

The victim’s daughter, a nursing student, immediately administered emergency care.

“She handled it like a champ,” John Lohr said of his daughter. “Her instincts just kicked in. She took control of the whole situation.”

Meanwhile, a bystander called for help and the students contacted another adult with their group, he said.

Medics rushed the wounded woman to Bellevue Hospital, where she was treated for a stab wound to her chest.

“My daughter called me,” the father recalled. “I was in Pennsylvania. She calls me and said, ‘Mommy’s been stabbed!’ ”

Lohr raced to the city and took his family home, where his wife is recovering.

“She wanted to get the hell out of that place,” the man said. “It changed our life and our child’s life forever.”

The couple has five children together.

Police quickly arrested Destin and charged him with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

His most recent address is the the former Times Square Hotel, which now serves as affordable housing for low-income, formerly homeless adults and people with serious mental illness, among others, according to nonprofit social services organization Breaking Ground.

The massive building is the “largest supportive residence in the country,” with 652 apartments.

A woman working at the deli Monday said Destin regularly stopped in for cigarettes, never causing any trouble.

Destin has numerous prior arrests, including for criminal mischief and menacing, and is known to the Police Department as “emotionally disturbed,” sources said.

“I don’t know why he’s out on the streets,” said John Lohr. “This is New York City. Where the towers fell, where the Statue of Liberty is. It’s a big place for tourists. I don’t understand why this guy is running around.

“I hope the guy rots in hell for what he did,” he added. “I hope they bring attempted murder charges against him.”

Alejandro Santos was knifed in his sixth-floor apartment on W. 147th St. near Frederick Douglass Blvd. about 3:40 p.m. on Sunday, cops said.

One neighbor said she heard piercing screams followed by the victim’s girlfriend pounding on neighbors’ doors and begging someone to call 911.

The neighbor said she made that call, then listened through her door as the woman told first responders Santos had stabbed himself.

“She was very adamant,” the neighbor said. “She said from the beginning he did it to himself.”

“I can’t imagine someone would stab himself multiple times,” the neighbor added.

Police said Santos was unconscious with multiple stab wounds all over his body when officers got to the scene. Medics rushed him to Harlem Hospital, but he could not be saved.

The victim’s girlfriend was taken into custody and was being questioned at the 32nd Precinct stationhouse, but had not yet been charged, police said.

Brandon Cone, 29, was in his fifth-floor apartment with his wife and 3-year-old son when he heard screaming from the floor above.

“Originally I thought she had been stabbed,” Cone said of the victim’s girlfriend. “She was covered in blood. … As soon as I saw that I ran back inside and called 911.”

Cone’s wife, Jeneve Cone, who showed the Daily News cell phone video depicting the blood trail the girlfriend left behind as she ran down one flight to Cone’s floor, said it was nothing new to hear shouting matches coming from the victim’s apartment.

“They were loud a lot but nothing like this,” she said. “You would hear things get loud. It was a bad loud.”

“Hey, [you’re] cute,” Jonathan Siguncia, 22, told his victim in a subway car before allegedly following the 48-year-old federal worker off the train, trailing her to the Jamaica, Queens, federal building where she works and beating her before she bravely fought him off.

Chilling surveillance video recovered from the scene of the March attack shows a man following and then chasing the woman as she ran into her building, police said.

The relieved victim said she picked the suspect from a photo lineup.

“The NYPD had a tip once the news came out,” the woman told the Daily News. “It seems like the tip they got was the same guy.

“I would never forget that face,” she said.

Even with the suspect off the street, the woman said she still feels unsafe going back to work because nothing has been done to increase security at the building.

“Is this going to happen again? Should I be worried if I go back to work?” she said. “How am I supposed to protect myself if security isn’t doing their job? It’s overwhelming to be in this situation.”

The victim said she is seeing doctors and therapists regularly to manage the physical and emotional fallout from the attack.

“I hope that this never happens to anybody out there, any female. It’s very traumatic,” she said. “I’m still going through it. I think about it every day. I still have nightmares. It’s not easy.”

The woman had just boarded a Queens-bound J train about 6:15 a.m. on March 19 at her local Brooklyn stop when a man insisted on sitting beside her, she said.

“What was strange to me was the whole train was empty,” the victim, who asked that her name not be used, previously told the Daily News. “There were only four people, including him. Why would he want to sit next to me when there’s seats all around?”

“The moment he sat there he started staring at me,” she added. “I could feel him breathing on me. So I got up and went to the next car and when I looked back he was right behind me. I was like, What’s the problem with this guy? What does he want?”

The woman started fearing for her safety as he peppered her with unwanted flattery and followed her off the train.

“When he got next to me I was like, ‘Why are you following me?’ He answered that I looked good and I smelled good. I told him to leave me alone and to walk away. He looked me up and down like he couldn’t believe I would say that.”

After the woman left the Jamaica Center station the man tailed her all the way into the Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building on Jamaica Ave. where she works, and beat her as she struggled to escape, she says.

“When he caught up to me and started punching me and hitting me, he hit my head against the wall, so I’ve been getting a lot of headaches. My doctor is supposed to schedule a test to determine if this is serious or not. I’m taking medication for it now.”

The gutsy victim said she fought back, breaking her nails in the process. She said she was also left with bruises on her arms.

Cops recovered surveillance images of the man chasing the victim and released them to the media, asking anyone with information about his whereabouts to call authorities.

Siguncia, from Queens, was arrested Thursday evening and charged with stalking and aggravated harassment. It was not immediately disclosed how cops identified him. His arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending.

Juanita Vidal was struck along with her daughter in Bushwick at about 5 p.m., just around the corner from where she lived. She was taken to Wyckoff Hospital but could not be saved. Jessica Vidal, 44, is in stable condition.

“It was my son’s birthday,” said Juan Fernandez, Jessica’s husband. “I don’t know if they were there to get food or a toy.”

Officers from the 83rd precinct had attempted to conduct a vehicle stop for a traffic infraction at Eldert St. and Wilson Ave. when a blue Mazda CX-5 with Massachusetts plates fled, police said Friday. The Mazda took off northbound on Eldert St., said police, then blew through two stop signs a block away at the intersection of Knickerbocker Ave. and Eldert St.

The vehicle swerved to the left to avoid another car traveling westbound on Knickerbocker Ave. when it struck the women, said police.

The officers had pursued the vehicle and lost sight of it before spotting it again a few minutes later. Before cops could turn on the lights on their car the Vidals had been hit, police said.

It wasn’t immediately disclosed why police were trying to pull the man over.

Video obtained by the Daily News shows a pedestrian scurry out of the crosswalk and a red sedan slam on its brakes as the hit-and-run driver streaks through the intersection of Eldert St. and Knickerbocker Ave. with a marked NYPD vehicle following through the intersection.

The driver abandoned the totaled Mazda, ran about two blocks into the Halsey St. subway station and hopped on an L train, police sources said.

“We tried to cross the street and we realized the car wasn’t stopping at the stop sign. So we tried to go back or forward,” Jessica Vidal told the Daily News, wincing in pain from her bed at Elmhurst Hospital. “It was so fast. It was like we got shocked.”

“We got struck. After that all I remember is me on the floor and a bunch of people around me. That’s all I remember,” said Jessica.

The younger woman has seven broken ribs and a ruptured lung, she said.

“She helped everybody. She’s friends with everybody around the neighborhood,” Fernandez said of his mother-in-law, who is from Puerto Rico and had six children.

“Everybody loved her a lot. This is shocking for everybody.”

Fernandez waited to tell his wife her mother had been killed because she was medicated, he said.

“Now she knows her mother passed away right next to her. She was going to go alone, and the mother said, ‘I don’t want you to go by yourself.’ That makes Jessica feel a little guilty. I was trying to explain to her it could have been anybody. It could have been our kids walking with her.”

A neighbor called Fernandez in tears to notify him of the crash. He rushed to the scene to find his wife being comforted by a police officer as first responders attempted in vain to resuscitate his mother-in-law.

“They were giving her CPR. Her eyes were open, her tongue was sticking out,” he said.

Despite struggling to breathe through her perforated lung, Jessica screamed for her mother at the scene.

“She was screaming, ‘My mom, my mom,'” Fernandez recounted. “Her mom was everything to her.”

The older woman was between the hit-and-run driver’s car and her daughter and suffered the brunt of the collision, according to Fernandez. Doctors told Fernandez that both his mother-in-law’s pelvis and spine were broken and that one of her arms was virtually destroyed in the crash.

Jessica and her mother checked to make sure that no cars were coming before they entered the crosswalk, a testament to how fast the killer’s car was moving, according to Fernandez.

“There was no way they could get away because of the speed of the car,” said Fernandez. “They looked before they crossed the street and didn’t see anybody.”

The superintendent of the family’s building also remembered Juanita Vidal as a kind, helpful person.

“She used to help me out with the super’s duty, the janitorial work, the garbage,” said Carlos Velez. “It’s sad. It’s very sad.”

When the women were hit, Velez was working outside the building, around the corner from the scene and was told of the tragedy by a witness.

“At that time I was working here. One of the guys that saw the accident told me about it and I couldn’t believe it,” said the super. “They don’t deserve that. I just hope everything goes well with Jessica. About her mother, rest in peace.”

The 15-year-old teen, whose name was not released by cops due to his age, is not linked to the murder. The other juvenile was released.

Daequan Buckley was shot multiple times in the stomach by a passenger in the car he was driving outside Magic Fingers Studio Hair Salon near E. 54th St. and Church Ave. in East Flatbush at about 8:20 p.m. on April 27, said police and witnesses.

Family remembered Buckley as a doting dad of a 4-year-old who was a whiz with computers.

“He could break down a computer and fix it back,” said Ingrid Homer, 65, the grandmother of Buckley’s half-sister.

“He’s very talented. He went to a good school. I don’t know if he taught himself,” Homer told the Daily News.

Another relative reflected on the victim’s childhood charm.

“I used to watch Daequan as a very young kid. He was very, very lovable, and he’s very smart. He’s very educated,” said Ayanna Homer, Buckley’s half-sister’s mother.

“My daughter is his sister, but she is like a sister-mother to him. Whenever anything happens to him, he goes to his sister most of the time,” said Ayanna Homer, 43.

“The shooter was a passenger in the car, and the victim was in the driver’s seat,” said a woman who works in the area and witnessed the bloodshed. “They were sitting in the car together.”

“The guy shot him three times, and he got out the car and walked away,” said the witness.

Family said despite his smarts and the advantage of a premium education, Buckley had veered into criminal activity.

“[Buckley’s mother] made sure they got the best education. She always made sure her son got the best education and also my daughter as well,” said Ayanna Homer.

“[He was] very smart, but he made the wrong friends, and he went in jail for some time and then he came out,” said Ingrid Homer.

According to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Buckley was released on parole in 2022 after serving just over three years for gun possession.

More recently, Buckley was busted after he was stopped in Brooklyn on March 14 driving a 2024 black BMW with an Illinois license plate that was reported stolen, said a law enforcement source.

He was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The BMW had been pilfered from a rental car company in Boston, said the source.

In the wake of his death, the close-knit family is reeling.

“She’s trying to hold up,” Ayanna Homer said of Buckley’s mother.

“Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction,” by Charles Townshend, is an historic look at recent attacks in an attempt to define terrorism and answer the question, “What can we do to stop it?,” says a description by publisher Oxford University Press.

The NYPD’s Kaz Doughtry, Deputy Commissioner of Operations, included the book in a visual array on a social media post along with a cache of hammers, gas masks and knives recovered from the raid on Columbia’s Hamilton Hall on Tuesday, when 44 protestors were arrested.

“These are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious,” Daughtry wrote on X on Thursday.

Townshend, in a response to the News, expressed disappointment at the NYPD.

“It’s never nice to be misrepresented,” Townshend told the Daily News. “But I think there may be an implication that people should not write about the subject at all — which feels like part of the wider current threat to academic freedom.”

Daughtry, appearing on the cable outlet News Max, held up the book amid a growing debate over whether outside forces are influencing events at Columbia, CCNY and other colleges across the city.

“Let’s talk about Hamilton Hall. A book on terrorism. I’ve said it before, there’s somebody, whether it’s paid, not paid, but they are radicalizing our students,” Daughtry said.

A call to the NYPD for comment was not immediately returned.

The issue of whether “outside agitators” were behind the encampment protests that culminated in the short-lived occupation of Hamilton Hall has become a focus of intense debate. Mayor Adams, NYPD officials and college leaders have repeatedly said outsiders were influencing student behavior, while student protest leaders deny that’s the case.

About half of the 300 or so arrested last week at Columbia and CCNY weren’t students or faculty at the schools. Forty-four of the arrests at Columbia happened inside Hamilton Hall; of them, 25 were Columbia students or employees, six were students at unidentified “affiliated institutions” and 13 were “nonaffiliates,” data obtained by the News shows.

The book by Townshend, part of a series carried by college and university libraries, is listed in the online catalog of Columbia University Library. The characterization of the work prompted a backlash on social media.

“It’s quite unbelievable, but NYPD is trying to portray Columbia students as dangerous elements of society using a book whose title includes the word ‘terrorism,'” wrote one contributor, Alon Mizrahi, in a post on X.

The controversy has drawn attention to Townshend’s other works, which include histories of the British rule of Ireland.

“Irish historians better hide all our Charles Townshend books quick,” wrote Irish historian Cormac Moore on X.

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A 1:30 a.m. 911 call led police to find three wounded men at the party located inside a commercial space on Atlantic Ave. near 109th St. in South Richmond Hill, cops said.

ABC 7 and Pix 11 reported the victims were celebrating a baby shower when the shooting occurred.

The victims included a 24-year-old man shot once in the chest, a 26-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his right arm and a 45-year-old man shot once in the left leg, according to law enforcement.

Medics rushed the 24-year-old victim to Jamaica Hospital where he died, cops said.

The other two victims were taken to Presbyterian Queens Hospital in stable condition, according to police.

A fourth victim, a 43-year-old man, made his own way to Jamaica Hospital with two gunshot wounds to his right arm and one to his left leg and is listed in stable condition, according to police.

No arrests have been made.

Police cuffed Emilio Berrios, 32, Friday on charges of criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an incident for the fatal hit-and-run that claimed Pan’s life on April 5, 2023, according to law enforcement.

Berrios was released from Rikers Island on Saturday after posting bail. A Bronx criminal court judge set bail at $25,000 cash or $75,000 insurance bond at his Friday arraignment, records show.

Berrios was driving behind the wheel of a white pickup truck when he blew through a red light heading north along Williamsbridge Road at Pierce Ave. in Morris Park around 11:22 p.m., cops said.

Pan, a hard working immigrant who his family said had been looking forward to retiring, had been traveling east along Pierce Ave. when he passed through a green light and Berrios’ truck slammed into him, an investigation by the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad found.

Police found Pan’s unconscious body on the pavement with a head wound less than 200 feet away from his Pierce Ave. home, cops said.

As Pan lay dying in the street, his daughter and son-in-law happened upon the scene while driving home.

“We passed by and saw he’s Chinese. Then we see the clothes are the same; jacket, same thing,” son-in-law Ken Ruo, 42, told the Daily News last year.

The couple’s 12-year-old son, who was home at the time of the crash, witnessed the crash’s horrific aftermath.

“My boy saw it. He couldn’t sleep the whole night,” Ruo said.

Medics rushed the victim to Jacobi Medical Center where he died, according to law enforcement.

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Berrios fled the scene in his truck, according to police. He never reported the fatal crash.

Pan hailed from China’s Fujian province and immigrated to the U.S. about 30 years ago, according to his son-in-law.

He made his living as a chef and had looked forward to retiring at 65, Ruo said.

“He’s a really nice guy,” said Ruo. “Every day off, he’s bringing the kids to the park. Very nice grandfather.”

Berrios is set to return to court Wednesday, records show.