{"id":360436,"date":"2026-09-30T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360436\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:40:10","slug":"woman-who-stabbed-queens-man-in-random-attack-also-smashed-moms-bmw-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360436\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who stabbed Queens man in random attack also smashed mom’s BMW: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman accused of stabbing a stranger on the front porch of his Queens home<\/a> in a random attack is also accused of damaging her mother\u2019s car in a bizarre fit of rage, according to Queens prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Melissa Duran, 39, defied a court order of protection when she drove to her mother\u2019s home and smashed the front driver-side and rear driver-side windows of her mother\u2019s white BMW around 5:19 a.m. on Sept. 23, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

The next day, she attacked the 54-year-old man sitting on his porch outside his home on 53rd Ave. by 213th St., stabbing him in the head after screaming \u201cWhat are you looking at?\u201d before fleeing in a red Honda Civic around 11:47 a.m., according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an instant, this innocent man\u2019s life was changed, and he is now recovering from a laceration along his temple and ear,\u201d said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.\u00a0 \u201cThe defendant also went to her mother\u2019s home \u2013 in violation of an order of protection \u2013 and repeatedly damaged the woman\u2019s vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not allow anyone to bring chaos and disorder to our residential neighborhoods,\u201d Katz said.<\/p>\n

The man sustained a puncture wound and was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens<\/a> with a minor injury, according to police.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018What the hell?\u2019\u201d the victim, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Daily News last week. \u201cI was so confused. I couldn\u2019t believe she would do what she did.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few hours after the attack, at about 9:10 p.m., Duran returned to her mother\u2019s home and started bashing her mom\u2019s car again, this time leaving a kitchen knife stuck in her rear bumper, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Duran was arrested Friday for the stabbing and charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. She\u2019s also charged with criminal mischief and criminal contempt for vandalizing her mother\u2019s car.<\/p>\n

A judge set Duran\u2019s bail at $500,000 cash and $1 million bond after she pleaded not guilty in Queens Criminal Court. She has six prior arrests in New York, including for an assault in June 2025, officials said.<\/p>\n

Just before Thursday\u2019s attack, the victim heard a cacophony of car drivers honking at a red car that was double-parked, blocking traffic on 53rd Ave., he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think much of it,\u201d the victim said. \u201cI was like, people honk all the time. This is what New Yorkers do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The red car then pulled up in front of the victim\u2019s building, and the suspect, who police described as a heavyset woman dressed all in black, stepped out of the vehicle. The victim, who was expecting a delivery, said the woman was carrying something in her hand that he thought might be his package.<\/p>\n

After unsuccessfully trying to enter a neighboring building, the woman returned to her car and, after noticing the victim glance at her, shouted, \u201cLook away, boy! Look away, boy!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked her what your problem was,\u201d the victim said. \u201cThat was enough to set her off.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was then, as the woman approached him, that the man realized the object in her hand was a knife.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe unsheathed the knife,\u201d he said. \u201cThen she just walked up to me and took a swing aimed at my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

The blow caused a minor skull fracture and a gash that required three stitches to close.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuckily, she had terrible aim,\u201d the victim said. \u201cShe missed my artery, missed my nerve. Had she stabbed one inch higher or lower, the consequences would be a lot worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bayside victim said he \u201cfeels safer\u201d following her arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she was still at large, who knows, she could come back to finish the job,\u201d he said. \u201cShe could decide to harm my other family members. I feel safer that she\u2019s off the street, and hopefully she will be off the street until she can get some psychiatric help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman accused of stabbing a stranger on the front porch of his Queens home in a random…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-360436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}