She didn’t move no more, so I just stood there with her.”Īrroyo’s aunt, Ali Acevedo-Hernandez, later told The Post outside court that the emotional account drove her to tears. “I ran over to her to try to get her up,” Williams said quietly. Jose Gonzalez was allegedly high on PCP when he ran over the mother of five. She found Arroyo lying still on the ground. “When we started to go forward, I felt some tumbling underneath us.” “I lost sight of her,” said the former medic, who retired the day of the horror. Williams said she immediately noticed that she no longer heard her pal “Yadi. That’s when Arroyo fell, and the emergency vehicle fatally ran her over. Gonzalez was able to kick the ambulance into gear even as he fought with the two medics, Williams said.Īnother witness said the suspect then suddenly backed up the ambulance and hit a car before lurching forward into an intersection. Facebook FDNY EMT Monique Williams detailed the harrowing attack in court Tuesday. FDNY medic Yadira Arroyo, 44, was fatally mowed down by her hijacked ambulance in 2017. “I was trying to pull his hand off the steering wheel,” Williams said in the courtroom - where about 50 EMTs were in the gallery staring down Gonzalez, who was allegedly high on PCP at the time of the crime. “I remember her screaming, ‘Oh hell, no!’ ” Williams said of Arroyo. The FDNY medics pulled over to investigate, and the next thing they knew, 25-year-old suspect Jose Gonzalez had run around and hopped behind the wheel of their emergency vehicle, she said. Monique Williams recalled to jurors in painful detail how she and Arroyo, a beloved 44-year-old mom of five, were driving to a call involving a pregnant woman when a passing motorist signaled to them that a man was riding on their bumper on White Plains Road about 7 p.m. The stricken former partner of slain EMT Yadira Arroyo described in Bronx court Tuesday how a routine day suddenly turned tragic when a deranged man hijacked their ambulance.
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