The convicted rapist accused of beating a woman nearly to death near the Randall’s Island shoreline was allegedly caught on camera with wet jeans and boots after the attack, prosecutors said.
Miguel Jiraud, who is being held without bail in the brutal May 16 attack on Diana Agudelo, was caught on surveillance video apparently throwing the victim’s e-bike into the Harlem River at 11:36 p.m. the day of the attack — roughly six minutes after she left her job at the Museum of the City of New York, according to a criminal complaint.
Jiraud, 30, allegedly ambushed and savagely beat Agudelo, 44, as she rode the e-bike down an isolated path near East 125th Street on Randall’s Island, leaving her clinging to life, sources and prosecutors said.
Fifteen minutes after he appeared to throw the bike into the water, Girard was seen on other footage approaching the HELP USA Keener homeless shelter at 64 Sunken Garden Loop from the direction of the shoreline where the e-bike was thrown, according to the complaint.
“I then observed the defendant enter the shelter,” an NYPD officer wrote in the complaint.
“I observed that the defendant was wearing a light colored/beige sweater with the word ‘ESSENTIALS’ printed on the front, light colored jeans that appeared to be wet on the buttocks, and work/Timberland boots that appeared wet.”
Jiraud’s GPS ankle monitor, which was a condition of his parole after serving 12 years in prison for rape, shows he made a beeline on the e-bike – up to 16 mph – to the shoreline. The bike was later recovered by SCUBA divers in the water.
The 44-year-old victim was found between the rocks on the shoreline just north of the bridge early the next morning. Jiraud’s GPS also puts him in the area where the victim was found, according to a criminal complaint.
Agudelo was taken to Elmhurst Hospital and remains hospitalized with “multiple brain bleeds, multiple skull fractures, a brain shift, abrasions and cuts on her back, and a penetrating wound to her left temple,” authorities said in the criminal complaint.
She may not regain consciousness, authorities said.
Her heartbroken daughter, Stephanie Rodas, said Friday she needed two surgeries, including one in which doctors removed part of her brain aht had been detached.
“They were almost about to do another surgery on her, a third, but it would have been deadly at this point,” the heartbroken 21-year-old said, adding that the doctors were putting her mom on medication to stop her brain activity.
Jiraud, who called 911 himself to report the attack, was sent to Rikers Island without bail on an attempted murder charge Friday night.
The violent sex offender, previously went to prison for 12 years for raping a woman in the Bronx in 2011. He was sprung on parole last year.
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