A Queens woman allegedly beaten over a parking spot by a foul-mouthed mother-daughter pair is moving out of the neighborhood days after the violent episode — even after about 100 people rallied outside the home of the accused attackers in a show of support for the victim.
Jayda McPherson, 21, is leaving her Ridgewood apartment Saturday for good, she told The Post, claiming her leasing company offered to relocate her after the horrifying video of her attack went viral.
“Some people had jumped me over a parking space. It was racially motivated because they kept pulling my hair and calling me racial slurs such as monkey and a slave,” McPherson had said of the attack, which was caught on video.
Just one day earlier, about 100 people, including some who drove from Long Island, turned out at the scene of the attack to back McPherson, with some rally goers wearing T-shirts that read “Protect Black Women.”
Adis Kurbegovic, the lone neighbor who jumped in to stop the fray while other witnesses simply recorded the assault, was also at the rally.
The drama unfolded when McPherson tried to park in front of the home of Andreea Dumitru, 45, and her 21-year-old daughter Sabrina Starman at Putnam and Onderdonk avenues.
Instead of letting McPherson park, the women and a mystery man tried to block her car with a garbage can.
“10 years…they’re doing like this with the garbage cans like 10 years,” Kurbegovic, 42, a housekeeper, told The Post.
“I feel bad, I told them a couple of times, you can do this. ‘Yeah, yeah, my son is sick, this and that, I need to bring him up.’ Yeah, you park and bring your car when you need to go to the doctor, bring your son down, and you pick him up with the car. When you come back, leave the car on the street, bring the kid upstairs, and then look for the parking.”
Kurbegovic, who recently underwent surgery and is using a cane, tried to de-escalate the situation with words.
But the “crazy” trio quickly resorted to fisticuffs and began wailing on McPherson with closed fists while hurling vile racial slurs.
The trio also pulled on McPherson’s hair so hard they ripped a chunk out of her head, the victim claimed.
“He was the only one that helped. He gave me water and everything after the situation,” McPherson recalled.
“All these neighbors that are inside right now were outside recording … They watched the whole fight go down, basically.”
McPherson had never met her attackers before the incident, and said the brawl erupted when she told them they weren’t allowed to hold parking spots.
It was the man — who has yet to be identified — who escalated the situation, she alleged.
“He blew up really fast,” she recalled.
McPherson, originally of Brooklyn, declined medical attention after the fight but said she now plans to visit a hospital.
Starman and Dumitru were later arrested and charged with first degree assault and second degree harassment, police said. Neither answered the door Friday.
The incoming college senior said she was astounded by the rally and said the attack ultimately “brought the community together more even as a whole.”
Ridgewood resident and father Felix Ortiz, 42, called the attack “disgusting,” adding the video struck a nerve after his own family members were impacted by domestic violence.
If the accused attackers are so concerned about parking they should leave the Big Apple, Ortiz said.
“My uncle lives in Connecticut, he has his own property, you know why? He was tired of looking for a parking space in New York. So he found a solution,” he said.
“If that’s what you want, your own parking spot, save up your money and go get a house and get property. In Connecticut, or in New Jersey, or anywhere that you can get property, hey, move to Long Island.”
Brandi Fuller, a mid-30s loss prevention worker, drove from Long Island to attend the rally and wanted McPherson to know, “I’m here for her.”
Brooklyn chef Laniya Murray, 25, made the trek from East New York and called the entire incident — including bystanders who chose to film instead of help McPherson — “disappointing.”
“It made me feel like people don’t care about protecting black women. It made feel really bad about the fact that people were watching and nobody did anything or came up or even used their voices. I feel like it takes 20 seconds to see if a fight has a weapon involved, and it was very clear that that fight didn’t have a weapon,” said Murray, who is also black.
“I think it would have been very easy to go and break it up after it continued, and even after she hit the floor, three people are hurting her at one time. So it really just felt like we’re unprotected, and people don’t care.”
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