Pain lingers over killing on Father’s Day

Raw emotion swept over Jasmine Fernandez on Friday as her brother’s alleged killer appeared for arraignment in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

“I can’t look at this monster,” said Fernandez, 31, whose brother William was gunned down last June 17, hours before he was to see his children on Father’s Day.

“It still hurts,” Fernandez said. “It’s still very fresh. My brother and I were super close.”

Suspect David Hall, 47, turned himself in last July, three weeks after he shot dead Fernandez, 33, at Bushwick Ave. and Beaver St. in Bushwick in a beef that began months earlier when the men argued over a parking spot.

Hall is being held without bail at the Brooklyn Detention Complex. He pleaded not guilty at a hearing on Friday morning, and is due back in court in July. Prosecutors and defense lawyers are preparing evidence in the case.

Weeks before the killing, Fernandez and Hall argued over a street parking spot that Hall claimed was his.

Weeks later, Hall found his tire was slashed. He blamed Fernandez.

“My brother didn’t do it,” Jasmine Fernandez said. “He’s not the type of person to do that. He’s a fighter. He’s a true man.”

She had a question for Hall: “Are you so intimidated by my brother that you have to take out a gun and shoot him, rather than putting your hands up and get your ass kicked?”

Fernandez’s children — three boys and a girl — are still trying to make sense of their father’s untimely death. They were waiting for him with Father’s Day presents the day of the killing — but they never saw him again.

“They’re still grieving. They’re missing their father. It’s very hard for them, too,” the sister said.

Her mother’s health has been deteriorating since William Fernandez’s death. One of her arms was paralyzed by a stroke, and she was in the hospital on Friday, forcing her to miss Hall’s court appearance.

Jasmine Fernandez said she’ll be present at Hall’s court hearings. “This is the least I can do for my brother,” she said.