Carmen and Michael Ojeda were at a playground with daughter Briana Ojeda on Friday when she started having trouble breathing during an asthma attack.
In their rush to get help for Brianna, the Ojedas turned the wrong way down a one-way street just around the corner from the hospital to avoid traffic and accidentally hit a parked car.
Then Carmen Ojeda flagged down a marked NYPD police car for help.
The uniformed man who got out of the car screamed, “What the f**k are you doing going down the wrong way,” then “smirked” and said “I don’t do CPR,” Michael Ojeda told reporters.
The uniformed officer then attempted to box them in when they asked to continue on to the hospital, while a passer-by named Scott Voloshin performed CPR.
Voloshin says he’s certain the man who refused to assist them was a cop.
Eventually the Ojedas—followed by the uniformed man—arrived at the hospital, where the apparent officer ripped up a ticket he was writing for them when he heard Briana was dead.
The NYPD claims the uniformed man in an NYPD cruiser may have been a security guard or volunteer auxiliary officer.
Whoever stopped Ojeda eventually followed her to the hospital. After a doctor broke the news that Briana had died, the “officer” ripped up a ticket he had been trying to give Carmen, Michael said.
A source said every cop in the local precinct was interviewed and none was at the scene.
Briana, who was set to enter the sixth grade at St. Francis Xavier School, wanted to be lawyer and would donate her allowance money to help animals, her mom said.
- DAYS LATER...
Officer Alfonso Mendez, the cop accused of being unhelpful to Briana Ojeda while dying of an asthma, attack shaved his head in an apparent attempt to throw off witnesses, the child's family charged Thursday.
"We think there was an attempt to alter his appearance," said Bonita Zelman, lawyer for the family of Briana.
At least three witnesses claim Officer Alfonso Mendez, 30, had a healthy head of hair, albeit a receding one, a week ago today when he stopped Briana's mother in Brooklyn as she was rushing the girl to the hospital.
It took detectives four days to identify Mendez as the cop accused of refusing to help the 11-year-old child because he didn't know CPR. Briana died in the emergency room, leaving her parents heartbroken and fuming over the cop's ineptness.
When he was tracked down by detectives Tuesday, Mendez was sporting a shaved head.
"Don't you think that's an admission of guilt?" Zelman said of Mendez's changing hair style.
Zelman said Briana's mom, Carmen Ojeda, only recalled that the cop who stopped her was wearing a hat. But three witnesses reported the officer as having plenty of hair on the sides.
"When I saw him, he had hair," said Sam Ali, a deli worker who called 911 when he saw the Cobble Hill incident [Eutisha Rennix] ordeal unfold.
Another witness, Wendy O'Connell, insisted Mendez had hair when he confronted Briana and her mother.
"He looks drastically different," said O'Connell, studying the fresh photo of Mendez.
"He went from hair to bare. He still has that smirk on his face," added witness Erica Domenech.
Mendez's attorney declined to comment.
The cop, assigned to the 84th Precinct in downtown Brooklyn, has been suspended without pay and will likely face a departmental charge for failing to take proper police action.
