Dunasha Payne pursued her boyfriend, Kaman Drummond with her 1994 Honda Accord until she caught up with him and pinned him against a pillar causing his death.
District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a 21-year-old Queens woman has been arraigned on murder charges for allegedly running down and killing her boyfriend with her vehicle earlier this week.
District Attorney Brown said, “This is a tragic story with no winners. A young man, with his whole life ahead of him, has been mowed down in the streets, allegedly by his girlfriend. The defendant, who allegedly chased him through the streets of Queens with her vehicle now, if convicted, could spend the better part of her young life in prison.”
Kaman Drummond
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Dunasha Payne, 21, of 119-26 221st Street in the Cambria Heights section of Queens. Payne was arraigned last night before Queens Criminal Court Judge John Zoll on a criminal complaint charging her with second-degree murder and fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon. Payne, who faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted, was held on $250,000 bail and ordered to return to court on April 19, 2013.
District Attorney Brown said that, according the criminal charges, Kaman Drummond, 26, of Rosedale, Queens, was fleeing on foot from his girlfriend, Dunasha Payne, who was chasing after him in her 1994 Honda Accord just before midnight on Monday, April 15, 2013. It is alleged that she pursued him for numerous blocks before eventually striking and pinning him against a brick pillar, thereby causing his death.
