QUEENS MAN INDICTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER IN POTENTIALLY FATAL BITE ATTACK OF GIRLFRIEND WHICH CAUSED SEVERE FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT AND POSSIBLE SIGHT LOSS
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that a Queens man has been indicted on charges of attempting to murder his girlfriend by repeatedly biting her face and body, tearing away parts of her flesh and causing her to sustain serious physical injuries which included gross disfigurement of her face and possible loss of sight in her left eye.
District Attorney Brown identified the defendant as Felix Rondon, 31, of 150-11 122nd Street in South Ozone Park, Queens, a car service business owner, who was charged with Attempted Murder in the Second Degree and Assault in the First and Second Degree. He faces up to 25 years in prison, if convicted.
District Attorney Brown said, "The intentional and incredibly savage attack by this defendant caused multiple physical injuries to the victim, the defendant’s girlfriend of eight years and mother of their child, a four-year-old girl. Fortunately, police who responded to a 911 call for help were able to save her life by pulling him off the victim and stopping the attack."
The three count indictment charges that the defendant, on February 18, 2002, intentionally attempted to cause the death of Jessica Mencia, 21, by intentionally biting her about the face and body and disfiguring her seriously and permanently. The victim remains hospitalized at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
Rondon was arrested and taken to Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan for psychiatric evaluation where he was being held pending the filing of criminal charges.
He is expected to be arraigned later today in Queens Supreme Court.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Marybeth E. Ayres under the supervision of Domestic Violence Bureau Chief Scott Kessler and Homicide Investigations Bureau Chief Peter T. Reese and under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Gregory L. Lasak.