Devastated by witnessing his girlfriend’s broad-daylight gun murder, Dwayne Walker wasted no time exacting revenge in a shocking caught-on-video incident in the Bronx.
As his girlfriend lay dying on a sidewalk in City Island, Walker rammed his car into accused shooter Geraldo Reyes as Reyes tried to flee by bicycle, the video obtained by the Daily News shows.
The impact with the Hyundai Sonata flung Reyes on his back to the pavement.
Then, Walker jumped out of his 2016 Sonata, which — driverless — rolled backward past Reyes as he struggled to use a temporary roadway sign to pull himself back on his feet.
Just as Reyes stood up, Walker ran up, pushed him to the hood of the car and pummeled him, stopping only after bystanders rushed to the scene.
“She was beautiful. She was everybody’s person, everybody’s friend,” Walker, 58, told the Daily News on Thursday night at his home in Queens.
“She was the one at the party who got everybody dancing,” Walker said. “Everywhere she went, she drew a crowd.”
“She’s described by the local residents as sort of the mayor of City Island, always a friendly face, always waving ‘Hi’ to passersby, has kind words for motorists as they go by in traffic,” Essig said.
Reyes, a 66-year-old handyman, was one of the people who knew Mass. He often biked by her construction site.
“She befriended him. She mentioned him. She said this guy would bring her lunch sometimes,” Walker said.
At the work site at the intersection of City Island Ave. and City Island Road on Wednesday, Mass introduced Reyes to Walker.
“I spoke to this guy and he seemed OK,” said Walker.
“When my sister presented her boyfriend to him he changed his look,” said Raul Mass, 43, who is Lizbeth’s brother.
“I think he didn’t know she had a boyfriend,” said Mass.
“He just exploded,” said Walker, who declined to further discuss the incident — “I don’t want to talk about him. I want to talk about her.”
Raul Mass said he heard that bystanders tried to stop Walker from pummeling Reyes — but his sister’s colleagues intervened.
“One of the co-workers came running, saying ‘No, no, no, he shot his girlfriend, he’s defending his girlfriend!’” Mass said. “So they backed away, and then the cops came, and grabbed both of them.”
That his sister was well liked on City Island — a close-knit middle-class community with one main thoroughfare — did not surprise her brother Raul.
“My sister is a friendly person to everybody,” Raul Mass said.
She made a good impression on her neighbors there.
“She was very friendly, nice,” said Verna Wise, 54, president of the Renaissance Condominium’s board.