Jealous man gets seven years for stabbing ex's new boyfriend

Jesus Quijada-Ayala, who slashed one romantic rival with a broken bottle and bashed another with a pipe, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A New Brighton man let his anger do the talking when he attacked two romantic rivals, badly injuring them, in separate incidents dating to 2015.

But Jesus Quijada-Ayala had nothing to say before a justice sentenced him on Friday to seven years in prison.

The 27-year-old bearded defendant shook his head and said "No," when Justice Stephen J. Rooney asked if he wished to make a statement to the court.

In June, Quijada-Ayala pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree assault for stabbing his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend in the neck with a broken bottle in a Stapleton bar last year.

He also pleaded guilty then to second-degree assault for clubbing a man on the head in October 2015. Quijada-Ayala believed the victim had slept with his girlfriend, said authorities.

The stabbing episode occurred on Oct. 30, 2016, in Extasis Bar at 308 Front St., according to a criminal complaint and a law enforcement source with knowledge of the case.

Sometime between 2 and 3:30 a.m., the defendant saw his ex and her beau at the bar and confronted them, despite a protection order issued on June 15 directing him to stay away from the woman for a year, said an indictment and the source.

Quijada-Ayala, 27, punched the woman, said the indictment.

The enraged defendant also hit her boyfriend on the back of the head with a glass bottle, then stabbed him multiple times in the neck with the bottle, which had broken, court papers and the source said.

That victim suffered puncture wounds of the neck and lacerations of the head and ear, and was taken to the hospital, said the complaint.

Previously, on March 31, 2016, Quijada-Ayala had put his hands around the woman's neck and damaged her cell phone, the indictment said.

And two months later on May 31, he violated a court order by contacting the woman, said the indictment.

The confrontation took place while Quijada-Ayala was free on bail in a prior assault case.

Prosecutors allege he clubbed a 32-year-old victim in the back of the head at about 6:40 a.m. Oct. 15, 2015, in front of an apartment building on Brook Street in Tompkinsville.

The defendant believed the man had been intimate with his girlfriend, said authorities.

It's not immediately clear if this woman is the same person Quijada-Ayala allegedly attacked in the bar.

The blow cracked the base of the victim's skull, caused intracranial hemorrhaging and left a gash, requiring 15 medical staples to close, according to a criminal complaint.

"He bullied me. He slept with my girlfriend. We got in a fight. I hit him with a pipe. Once. He was running away," Quijada-Ayala told police, according to the complaint.

Quijada-Ayala was sentenced as a second felony offender to seven years behind bars and five years' post-release supervision for the stabbing.

He also received five years in prison and five years' post-release supervision for the street attack.

The sentences will run concurrently.

At the request of defense lawyer Juan-Carlos Guttlein, Rooney directed that the defendant receive mental-health treatment and vocational training in prison.

He'll also receive anger-management, drug and alcohol counseling.

Assistant District Attorney Antonia Assenso prosecuted the case.