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A Bronx woman who was enraged over her broken iPhone mowed down her much
younger lover with her SUV yesterday — leaving the teen she once baby-sat dead in the
street, cops and relatives said. Jasmine Diaz, 25, and Frankie Hernandez, 17, got into a
drunken argument at about 2 a.m. inside his brother’s Concourse Village apartment
after she accused him of destroying the phone, cops and relatives said. “I heard her say,
‘You f–ked up my phone!’ ” said Cesar Santos, 22, one of the victim’s brothers. The fight
turned violent in an outside hallway. “She hit him and he pushed her back,” said Hern-
andez’s sobbing sister Nereida, 24. Santos said he heard screams after the two left the
building, ran outside and saw his little brother’s crushed body on the street — and Diaz
fleeing down Morris Avenue in her gold Lincoln Navigator. “I heard the rubber burning,
and saw her just drive off,” said Santos. “By the time I got to him, he was trying to talk,
but just bubbles came out. This wasn’t an accident.” EMS found the boy unconscious.
He was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he died. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said
Diaz ran over Hernandez as she made a U-turn. “[She] allegedly floors the engine, and
runs him down,” he said. Diaz’s brother Joshua, 18, admitted that his sister had a violent
temper and that the couple had fought before. “But she’s got to be provoked. You can’t
go next to fire and not expect it to get hot the closer you get,” he said. The teen’s devast-
ated mom, Iris, 47, spent yesterday sitting outside her home, clutching a picture of her
youngest child, who she said wanted to be a barber. “My other son said, ‘Mommy, Mom!
She hit him with the car!’ ” she said about Diaz, who family members said first met Hern-
andez when she was his baby sitter and he developed a crush on her. The pair started dat-
ing two years ago, when the victim was just 15 and Diaz was 23. “She should rot in jail and
never come out!” his mom spat. “He’s my smallest one. He’s a good kid.” Frankie’s older
brother Edwin Torres, 32, said he found Diaz at her mother’s house nearby and hailed
cops, who took her into custody. Diaz was charged with manslaughter and leaving the
scene. Her brother said she had recently lost her job as a security guard and was upset
over her worsening financial woes…
