The pictures, clipped as screengrabs from a dashboard camera recording, show the stocky, bearded killer run toward Ronald Gomez-Mesa, 29, with a blade in his hand after the two got into a brawl outside a Morris Heights bodega on July 2.
Gomez-Mesa tries to backpedal, slamming into the dashcam-equipped car as his still-unidentified attacker charges forward.
Ronald Gomez-Mesa’s unidentified killer (right) still has not been caught by the cops. Obtained by NY Post The man fled after he stabbed the 29-year-old father, cops said. Obtained by NY Post
Shortly afterward, the man fatally knifed Gomez-Mesa in the chest — and now his shattered family can’t understand why the cops aren’t working more aggressively to find his killer.
“Why is his picture not being posted? They know exactly who it is,” Gomez-Mesa’s cousin, who wished to remain anonymous because she fears reprisal, told The Post. “People may recognize him in the street and turn in the killer.
“For me and my family, no justice has been served,” she continued. “This is bulls–t.”
The violence erupted at about 4:30 p.m. that day after a man and a woman got in a small car accident outside Jason Deli and Grocery on West Tremont Avenue and Phelan Place, according to law enforcement sources.
The woman phoned a male friend, who showed up at the scene and randomly began attacking witnesses after someone threw something at him.
Gomez-Mesa with his two-year-old daughter, Rosalia. Family photo obtained by NY Post The man attacked several bystanders after a woman called him to the scene of a minor car accident. Obtained by NY Post
The thrower took off on a moped, according to the video. The irate attacker lunged at two men sitting nearby — including Gomez-Mesa.
The attacker and Gomez-Mesa got into a vicious street fight, and the man appeared to run away before coming back with a blade in his hand.
He stabbed Gomez-Mesa near a day care center on Phelan Place, then fled the scene.
A car crash in the Bronx Tuesday sparked a deadly road-rage brawl in which 29-year-old Ronald Gomez-Mesa, not involved in the initial incident, was stabbed to death. Courtesy of Rafael Castillo The attacker stabbed Gomez-Mesa in the chest, killing him and casting his tight-knit family into despair. Family photo obtained by NY Post A makeshift shrine pays tribute to Gomez-Mesa outside the bodega. Jack Morphet/NY Post
“I believe he must live close by because he got there quick,” Gomez-Mesa’s cousin said, adding that the killer attacked him while he was sitting down.
“My cousin was defending himself,” she said. “It was self-defense.”
“We lost somebody we truly love over nothing, and the system is failing us,” she said. “The detectives aren’t doing their jobs. They know exactly who the killer is … the police don’t care about this case.
“My cousin don’t even have a rap sheet,” she continued. “He was not the type to get into trouble. For him to die like that and now there’s no justice, who are we supposed to trust?”
“Why aren’t there wanted posters all over the neighborhood?”
Gomez-Mesa’s mother wailed for hours inside the family home, a stone’s throw from where he died, his sister said. FreedomNewsTV
Gomez-Mesa’s devastated mom will bring his body to the family’s ancestral homeland of the Dominican Republic for burial, she added.
Meanwhile, the family is fearful of further violence at the hands of Gomez-Mesa’s killer.
“We’re all scared — Ronald’s dad is scared to open the door,” his cousin said. “This killer could be outside our building. We were in the media, so everyone knows where we live.”
“I’m about to move soon because we don’t know what the killer is capable of,” said Gomez-Mesa’s sister, Ronaysi, before adding that she heard he belongs to a gang.
“My brother died, and his killer is walking around freely, doing whatever he wants while we suffer,” she continued. “The person who did this needs to pay.”
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