‘NIGHTMARE’:Sebastian Colon was 6 when dad Miguel (above) was killed while holding the boy’s hand.
‘NIGHTMARE’: Sebastian Colon was 6 when dad Miguel (inset) was killed while holding the boy’s hand. (
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A then-6-year-old Bronx boy who was holding his father’s hand when the dad was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver recalled the horrific incident in a heartbreaking letter read in court yesterday, saying, “My daddy and I didn’t deserve this.”
“I remember it like it was yesterday,” little Sebastian Colon, now 9, handwrote on a piece of lined notebook paper read in Bronx Criminal Court by prosecutor Lawrence Piergrossi.
“I remember I was about to cross the street with my dad. And this man ripped my daddy out of my hands. I remember [driver] Mark [St. Pierre] looked at me and drove off really fast with my bike’’ under the wheels.
“I was so angry and afraid . . .I saw my daddy bleeding all over his head, and he had his eyes open.
“I tried to speak to him, but he never answered me,” wrote the stricken child, whose family said he was not in court because he would have been too traumatized to see his father’s killer.
“I had nightmares for months, and I couldn’t even cross the street because I thought you was going to kill me two [sic],’’ the boy wrote. “My daddy and I didn’t deserve this. My daddy will never get to see me ride my bike again . . . or hold my hand again.”
The boy had been crossing East Gun Hill Road hand-in-hand with his dad, Miguel Colon, 36, after a bike-riding lesson three years ago when the father was struck down by driver Mark St. Pierre.
A dejected St. Pierre, 38, kept his eyes on the floor as he listened to the child’s poignant letter being read before he was sentenced to up to 15 years behind bars.
The rogue driver also didn’t move as Colon’s 15-year-old son, Miguel Jr., told the court: “One minute, everything was fine, and then suddenly, everything changed . . . my life has been forever affected.’’
Miguel Colon’s grieving sister, Kisha, 30, wiped away tears as she told St. Pierre: “You took my brother right in front of my nephew’s eyes.
“I can’t forgive you. You are the monster that I have bad dreams of. Your name will forever haunt me.”
Before being sentenced, St. Pierre said he was “filled with regret.”
Without turning his handcuffed body to face the row of family members in court, St. Pierre added, “There are no words in the human language that can show or express my remorse to your family.
“That day and every day after has and will always be filled with regret . . . Hopefully, the day will come when you can forgive me.
“I am not evil, I am not a monster.”
St. Pierre had struck out on his July 12, 2009, rampage after having argued with and struck the mother of his 3-year-old daughter in the parking lot of a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in the Baychester section.
St. Pierre roared off in his car and careened into several parked vehicles before smashing into Colon at about 90 mph.