Ralph Carnegary (James Messerschmidt)
There’s no indictment yet for the alleged teenaged female wolf packers charged in stabbing a Vietnam vet straphanger on a 6 train Monday morning.
Prosecutors asked for more time today to fully unravel the details of the seething melee, which left Ralph Carnegary, 63, stabbed in the left shoulder.
All Carnegary had done was ask the group of eight rowdy gals to pipe down, prosecutors have said.
But the gals are maintained that they acted in self defense — and that the knife was Carnegary’s.
“If there was a struggle, he may have stabbed himself with his own knife,” said Ikiesha al-Shabazz, lawyer for accused stabber Starmeik Driggins.
“We were all rapping and singing,” accused accomplice Sheyla Figueroa, 18, told reporters as she waited in court this morning.
“It wasn’t bothering anybody. If it was bothering somebody we would have stopped,” Figueroa said.
“He was making remarks to his friend, like, ‘They’re mad ghetto’ and ‘they’re drunk.’ Yes, we came from a party, but we weren’t drunk,” the teen insisted.
“I did lean over to him and say ‘Excuse me?’ What did you say?’ And he said, ‘Shut up bitch’ and I said, ‘No, you shut the f–k up.'”
Then ensued cursing and scuffling, all at the veteran’s prompting, and culminating in his pulling a knife, Figueroa maintained.
“Him being a vet he should have known how to handle the situation,” Figueroa told reporters.
Figueroa and the rest of the pack, Michelle Rodriguez, 18, Martha Bermudez, 17, Sha-Steva Burdos, 17, are due back in court on Aug. 29.