Overview

• In a July 15 YouTube interview the mother and daughter offered fresh apologies and insisted they were provoked before the July 7 Ridgewood, Queens altercation.
• Victim Jada McPherson has dismissed their remorse as insincere and criticized the timing of their apologies.
• Dumitru and Starman say they have received hundreds of online insults and death threats since the viral video circulated.
• Police continue searching for the unidentified man who assisted in the attack despite the pair’s claim that he was a neighborhood acquaintance.
• Both are charged with third-degree assault and second-degree harassment and are due to appear in court on September 9.