Ice Pick Stabber Receives Sentence

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NY — A sentence was handed down Monday for an ice pick stabbing that occurred in 2017. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. said David Rojas, 39, of Yonkers, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for second-degree attempted murder, a felony, in connection with a stabbing in Hastings-on-Hudson.

Scarpino said, on Nov. 13, 2017, Rojas was a passenger in a vehicle belonging to the victim, a former girlfriend, when he stabbed her about 14 times in her abdomen and chest, while they were parked on Saw Mill River in Hastings-on-Hudson.

The woman got out of the car and ran on Saw Mill River Road waving down passing motorists for help.

Rojas drove off with the woman’s car but circled back several times looking for her.

A high school athletics coach, who was passing by, saw the woman in need of assistance and stopped to help her.

He took the woman into his car where she could be safe and called 911.

She was then transported to Westchester Medical Center where she received treatment for stab wounds to her abdomen, chest, leg and hand.

Rojas was taken into custody in Yonkers, still driving the woman’s car, shortly after the stabbing.

During an interview with Greenburgh Police Department detectives, he admitted that he had stabbed the woman, police said. He also directed detective to the spot where he threw the weapon, which was a metal ice pick.

Rojas pleaded guilty March 29.

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