A Bronx woman who was enraged over her broken iPhone mowed down her much younger lover with her SUV yesterday — leaving the teen she once baby-sat dead in the street, cops and relatives said.
Jasmine Diaz, 25, and Frankie Hernandez, 17, got into a drunken argument at about 2 a.m. inside his brother’s Concourse Village apartment after she accused him of destroying the phone, cops and relatives said.
“I heard her say, ‘You f–ked up my phone!’ ” said Cesar Santos, 22, one of the victim’s brothers.
The fight turned violent in an outside hallway.
“She hit him and he pushed her back,” said Hernandez’s sobbing sister Nereida, 24.
Santos said he heard screams after the two left the building, ran outside and saw his little brother’s crushed body on the street — and Diaz fleeing down Morris Avenue in her gold Lincoln Navigator.
“I heard the rubber burning, and saw her just drive off,” said Santos. “By the time I got to him, he was trying to talk, but just bubbles came out. This wasn’t an accident.”
EMS found the boy unconscious.
He was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he died.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Diaz ran over Hernandez as she made a U-turn.
“[She] allegedly floors the engine, and runs him down,” he said.
Diaz’s brother Joshua, 18, admitted that his sister had a violent temper and that the couple had fought before.
“But she’s got to be provoked. You can’t go next to fire and not expect it to get hot the closer you get,” he said.
The teen’s devastated mom, Iris, 47, spent yesterday sitting outside her home, clutching a picture of her youngest child, who she said wanted to be a barber.
“My other son said, ‘Mommy, Mom! She hit him with the car!’ ” she said about Diaz, who family members said first met Hernandez when she was his baby sitter and he developed a crush on her.
The pair started dating two years ago, when the victim was just 15 and Diaz was 23.
“She should rot in jail and never come out!” his mom spat. “He’s my smallest one. He’s a good kid.”
Frankie’s older brother Edwin Torres, 32, said he found Diaz at her mother’s house nearby and hailed cops, who took her into custody.
Diaz was charged with manslaughter and leaving the scene.
Her brother said she had recently lost her job as a security guard and was upset over her worsening financial woes.
Additional reporting by Bob Fredericks