Council member’s tormentor off hook
The caretaker and partner of City Council member Ben Kallos’ mother got a dismissal deal Tuesday in his bust for harassing and stalking the elected official for years.
David Tash, 69, also saw criminal contempt charges dismissed for allegedly violating an order of protection in April after prosecutors said they couldn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Tash contacted Kallos “intentionally” against the order.
The family drama A father of four fatally shot in the neck by a bicycle assassin drove about five blocks before he pulled over near the Bronx Criminal Courthouse and cops and good Samaritans rushed to his aid, police and witnesses said Tuesday.
Lee McClendon skidded to a halt at E. 161st St. near Sherman Ave. in Concourse Village around 7:35 p.m. Monday and stepped out of his car, bleeding profusely.
Pelletier, 29, grabbed a towel and held it to spilled into the courthouse on Sept. 1 when Tash was arrested near Ben Kallos’ E. 93rd St. office where he shouted at the rep about 74-yearold June Kallos (photo), who is in a wheelchair and suffers from Parkinson’s.
She was set to undergo a heart catheterization procedure.
"Your mother may die! She wants you there! ... Stop that guy!" Tash is heard saying to Kallos on a video the caretaker made.
But it was the last straw for the councilman, who had a longsimmering McClendon’s wound as she tried to keep him standing upright.
McClendon collapsed in the crosswalk a few feet from his car, his final moments captured in a gruesome video shared on Facebook.
Medics rushed McClendon to Lincoln Hospital, where he died. The 46-year-old dad had three sons and a daughter, who range from 4 to 23 years old, according to his wife, Jay. and contentious relationship with the confidant of his mother, a retired behavioral therapist.
Tash has to stay arrestfree for six months and his original case will be dismissed and sealed under the terms of the deal he took in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Orders of protection were issued in favor of Kallos, his wife and their baby.
Tash was collared a second time on a Kallosrelated complaint in April when Kallos reported a voice mail left on his line in which Tash appeared to use threatening language.
Tash and June Kallos maintain that the councilman has estranged himself from her and that Tash had been trying to get him to come around when thing went haywire. A man was shot to death on a Queens street early Tuesday, authorities said.
The unidentified victim, who is believed to be in his 40s, was blasted twice in the chest on Roosevelt Ave. near 60th St. in Woodside at about 12:30 a.m., cops said.
He was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died.
Detectives spent much of the day trying to find out who the man is because he didn’t have any identification.