The accused maniac from Manhattan who launched a violent weekend rampage asked if he could talk to his mum after being ordered without bail on Monday.
‘Can I contact my mother?’, Suspect Bryan Thompson – who allegedly injured ten people and stabbed two vehicles in an hour-long crime fight – pointed to the criminal court at the end of his trial in Manhattan.
Thompson’s attorney, Evan Rock, responded that he would institute something between the two.
Thompson, 43, of Atlantic City, NJ, is accused of arbitrarily beating a string of fighters, tourists, drivers and other innocent unsuspecting New Yorkers with a wooden club between Saturday and Friday at about 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. TriBeCa to Chelsea.
“In the span of about an hour, the accused used part of a tree trunk and another hardwood object to commit a series of crimes,” Assistant District Attorney Marissa Carro told Judge Michael Frishman during the live trial. in which Thompson appeared on video from a jail room.
“In one of the incidents, the accused hit the victim, a Uber driver, several times in the head to steal his car,” Carro said of a $ 200,000 bail or $ 600,000 bail for Thompson. to ask.
‘The accused also used the wooden object to hit three people [they were] waiting on a ‘metro platform’ ‘and an MTA worker after the suspect climbed the stairs of Canal Street station, the ADA said.
Thompson suddenly intervened, ‘It’s all wrong!
“I went home!” He claimed. “I tried to get on the train, but the MTA man …”
The judge asked the suspect to be quiet and asked Thompson to reply, “Yes, sir.”
Thompson, also asked to close the door to his jail room to limit the noise, and said he could not because of his handcuffs.
“I have some waste in my nose that I’m trying to take out,” he added. “It irritates me.”
Thompson’s attorney asked the judge to order a psychiatric exam for his client.
When the judge asked him why, Rock replied, ‘My conversations with my client clearly show me that he had a break with reality, Judge.
“His conversations … the appearance of the client, things like that,” the lawyer said.
The judge ordered the exam – while going even further than prosecutors asked in terms of Thompson’s bail and resettlement.
In his argument for the high bail, the ADA noted that during Thompson’s alleged bullying, he ‘robbed another driver of his car, and then drove around the city for a while.
‘When he was finally arrested, the police asked the accused to pull over. He refused.
“He eventually collided with a police vehicle and was still in custody,” Carro said.
She said that although Thompson “has no criminal record … given the behavior of the accused, he already shows that he does not listen to orders or precepts.”
The judge ordered Thompson to adjourn until at least his next court date, Jan. 19.
The suspect faces four charges of second-degree assault, two counts of first-degree robbery and two counts of third-degree criminal mischief.
According to law enforcement sources, Thompson was once arrested in New York. It is unclear why.
According to records, he was also indicted in Camden County, NJ in 2007 for passing bad checks and pleading guilty and being put to the test a year later.
-Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan, Larry Celona, Craig McCarthy and Rebecca Rosenberg