Hit-and-run driver who mowed down mom-to-be on way home from Beyonc concert nabbed in NYC: officials

The hit-and-run driver who cops say mowed down and dragged a pregnant woman heading home from a Beyoncé concert was busted on murder charges, cops said Wednesday — as the victim’s grieving husband slammed the motorist as a “coward” and a “monster.”Chaquasia Pigford, 28, faces a laundry list of charges — including second-degree murder, manslaughter, reckless driving, driving without a license, and leaving the scene of a deadly accident — for allegedly ramming into 32-year-old Tiffany Cifuni the night of May 24 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.Pigford was ordered held without bail by Judge Dena E.Douglas during her Wednesday afternoon arraignment, attended by about 10 relatives of the slain mom-to-be, including her husband, James Cifuni. “She’s a coward,” the tearful husband could be heard saying during the proceedings.

“She’s a monster.” Tiffany’s father-in-law, Nick Cifuni, a private practice lawyer who previously worked for the NYPD, told reporters the family is “happy today happened.” “We have been reeling from the day [Tiffany] was killed,” he said.“We will not rest until it’s over and we get justice for Tiffany.“I don’t want to say anything to disrupt the evidence of the case.” Cifuni — who prosecutors say was 12 weeks pregnant — was on her way home from the Beyoncé concert at MetLife Stadium the night she was killed, her heartbroken in-laws told WABC at the time of the tragedy. While en route, Cifuni, who was driving a 2021 Toyota 4Runner, was rear-ended by Pigford, who was driving a stolen 2016 Chevy Trax on Lewis Avenue, cops and prosecutors said. Cifuni followed Pigford for about two blocks before the Chevy driver finally stopped at Van Buren Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard, Assistant District Attorney Tara Kelly said. Cifuni got out of her car and walked up to Pigford’s ride — but Pigford “refused to roll down her window or speak with Tiffany,” Kelly said. “At that point, the defen...