A Queens woman confronted by the violent repeat offender who later tried to carjack another driver – sparking a wild scene that ended with an NYPD detective shot by friendly fire Friday – slammed New York’s lax-on-crime system, seething that “this person should be locked up.”
Kimberly Patino, 32, said she was about to head to the gym when she spotted a suspicious man – who cops later determined to be four-time violent convicted felon Kevin Dubuisson, 28 – come at her from across the street.
“I see him, and he literally locks eyes with me,” Patino recalled in an interview with The Post. “He’s like, ‘Imma f–king kill you, you white b–h.’
“Thank God my husband was home. And I’m yelling, ‘Babe, babe, come, come!’” she said, adding the terrifying stranger was “no more than, a couple inches away from me and my car.
“And he’s yelling, ‘Imma f–king kill you! Imma f–king kill you!’”
Patino’s husband came “running” outside and confronted the creep, telling him “What the f–k are you gonna do?” as she dialed 911.
The maniac bolted, ultimately ending up on a service road along the Whitestone Expressway, where he accosted an Uber driver, according to police.
Dubuisson’s alleged attempts to carjack the ride-share driver eventually led to a confrontation with cops that ended with NYPD Det. Corey Fisher — a 12-year-veteran — getting shot in his right hand and left leg, authorities said.
Patino, an emergency room technician at NewYork Presbyterian Queens hospital, slammed the revolving door criminal justice system for allowing Dubuisson — a disturbed career criminal out on parole — to walk free.
“I just don’t understand what is going on with the law,” she said. “This person should be locked up, or there should be more punishment on somebody that has a violent history.
“This city is turning into trash,” Patino added. “How are we allowing people to go around carjacking people and hurting people and letting people become victims over and over and over again?”
Patino said she first spotted the suspect not long before he came at her car. She was walking her dog in front of her home on Parsons Boulevard near 28th Avenue around 8:30 a.m. when she spotted a man who “seemed out of place,” tugging on car doors at a Mobil gas station across the street.
He managed to hop inside an SUV, only to be fought off by a gas station worker, she said.
“[As] that was happening, I just kept observing him,” said Patino. “I’m right across the street, and I had my car on, with the windows down, because I was going to go to the gym.”
Patino recalled seeing what appeared to be a handle under the man’s gray hoodie — moments before he crossed the street “to try to come and get me,” with his eye on her car, a 2022 Dodge Durango.
Soon after he was scared off by Patino’s husband, Dubuisson allegedly walked up to the Uber, a black Toyota Highlander, declared he was robbing it and flashed what the driver believed to be a gun, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
The driver called 911, and patrol officers descended on the scene – soon to be joined by Queens South narcotics detectives who spotted what was going on as they drove back to their command, police said. They blocked the car in, sparking a confrontation that ended with the cops firing their weapons shortly before 9 a.m., inadvertently striking their colleague.
Fisher, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in a police cruiser, and Dubuisson was taken into custody, cops said.
He was charged with robbery, assault, menacing, attempted robbery and two counts of attempted assault.
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Once Patino heard what happened, she said it dawned on her that “it could’ve been me.”
“Thank God I’m observant,” she said. “I had my car on everything. Like, God forbid, what if I didn’t see him? I’m just still in shock [from] everything. What if my husband wasn’t home?….I could’ve been dead.”
Dubuisson already had 10 unsealed arrests on his record and a history of mental health-related incidents before Friday, law enforcement sources said.
The recidivist was on parole after being released from prison in March on a robbery conviction – and had been nabbed as recently as Thursday for fare evasion but cut loose, authorities said.
“I heard that this guy literally just got out of jail yesterday, and they’re still processing paperwork, and he’s already attacking people,” Patino said.
She lamented that the violence will “get worse and worse because nobody does something.”
“It has to start with the mayor,” Patino said. “It has to start with people up there setting an example. They’re not doing anything.”
