Schizophrenic Mom Lands Random Blows at Five Innocents After Brooklyn Meal With Daughter Abruptly Ends

A hellraiser wrecked an eatery and bashed several bystanders after a supper with her daughter hit the skids, the Sun has learned. Hilda Grullon, 44, was allegedly calm and composed around 3:30 p.m. on January 31; even enjoying sips of a tasty frozen margarita from the bar of Brooklyn’s Burrito Bar & Kitchen. When her daughter arrived, the two were seated at table 27 — a prime spot in the corner of the establishment that since 1991 has been serving up Tex-Mex fare in Prospect Heights after relocating from Tribeca. “It hurt like a mother—,” Gregory Yerman, the eatery’s 63-year-old general manager, told the Sun days after suffering a blow to the top of his dome that was bleeding profusely after the raging customer allegedly whacked him with a glass projectile while he tried to bounce her out. First, the food order was 86’d. Mr. Yerman said the waitress serving them noticed the mother becoming “a little agitated” after her daughter marched out in a huff.“Her daughter left crying,” Mr. Yerman said. When the check was left at the table, Ms. Grullon allegedly unleashed a profanity-laced freakout. “She started screaming at the top of her lungs,” Mr. Yerman recalled. “She was saying everything under the sun. “It was out of the blue; obscenities, the N-word.”The manager deputized himself as the bouncer whose mission it was to shield his staff and customers. So he attempted to usher the human wrecking ball out of the restaurant by force. She allegedly groused, “Get the f— off me! Get the f— off me! I’m gonna kick your a–!”Ms. Grullon, he said, snatched a glass off a table and hurled it toward fellow diners. It smashed. Glass flew. But Mr. Yerman sighed, “Thank God it didn’t hit anyone.”This provoked at least one customer to return fire by chucking a glass back at Ms. Grullon. As Mr. Yerman was dragging Ms. Grullon outside, he claims Ms. Grullon then took a glass bottle or candle holder (he can’t be sure) from another table and used it to clock him on the top of his head. Blood drizzled down his face, but the adrenaline “was flowing.” Mr. Yerman stayed determined to extricate the provocateur. And even when he did, he claims Ms. Grullon was raring for round two. “She tried to get back in,” said Mr. Yerman. “My employees were at the front door, you know, holding it to keep it closed so she couldn’t.”With the threat walking off, Mr. Yerman was soon ambulanced to a hospital to get six staples to stanch the head wound.Cast out in the winter cold — the woman allegedly went on a slugging spree, punching four innocents. The random targets in Ms. Grullon’s Flatbush Avenue warpath were a 52-year-old man strolling the sidewalk with his two children, a 53-year-old woman, a 54-year-old woman, and a 37-year-old woman. Cops busted the rogue pugilist and she was formally slapped with a heap of charges including assault, menacing, endangering the welfare of a child, and harassment. However, at her arraignment, Judge Jacob Zelmanovitz granted her supervised release, dismissing prosecutors’ request for $40,000 cash or $80,000 bond bail. “I saw this woman bleeding on her face just come up to me and punch me,” the 53-year-old woman — a public school teacher who asked to remain anonymous — told the Sun. The startled woman recalled, “She hit me in the face; right on the bridge of my nose.”Afterward, she saw Ms. Grullon go and strike another man. That man told the Sun under the condition of anonymity that he was with his two kids when he saw this distraught woman dart straight for him. There was a distinct beat where he said he was able to ask the distraught woman, “Do you need help? Are you okay?”Ms. Grullon answered with a thundering right cross. “She hit me and walked off,” he said. The man was stunned. As for her being sprung by the judge, the second victim hopes Ms. Grullon “gets the help she needs because she’s obviously disturbed.”Indeed, the Sun learned from her sister who offered only her first name, Natalie. She confirmed that Ms. Grullon suffers from a severe case of schizophrenia. “It was diagnosed a few years ago,” Natalie explained, adding that she has tried to get her sister help based on “certain scenarios that were occurring.”When informed of her sister’s attacks on five people — the sibling was flummoxed. “I don’t know how she would have the strength to do that,” she said. “I’ve never seen it that bad.”The majority of Ms. Grullon’s schizophrenic outbursts were limited to excessive arguments. Even though they weren’t necessarily physical, they were enough to force her sister to become estranged given she wanted to protect her two young children. “She’s OK most of the time,” said Natalie, noting that it’s highly likely Ms. Grullon wasn’t taking her crucial meds. “When this happens she believes in things that are not occurring,” said Natalie. “And then she becomes defensive and everyone is an enemy from out of nowhere.”Specifically, Ms. Grullon suspects that there are “people trying to come and attack her.”Cursing and “saying some pretty harsh stuff” is commonplace during these protracted states, she added. When informed by the Sun about the human toll wrought by her sister’s flying fists, the sister was overcome with contrition. “I’m definitely going to look into it so that I can at least apologize to those innocent bystanders — because, honestly, you know it sucks.”Meanwhile, the Burrito Bar & Kitchen owner, Mr. Yerman, isn’t ready to pass the peace pipe with Ms. Grullon just yet. He doesn’t want her to get away scot-free. Asked about Ms. Grullon being sprung from custody, he was nonplussed. “F—ing crazy,” he said. “I’m hoping to press charges if the judge doesn’t dismiss the case.”He intends to make sure the prosecutors know where he stands, stating, “I’m waiting to talk to the ADA, and we’ll see what happens.”

Schizophrenic Mom Lands Random Blows at Five Innocents After Brooklyn Meal With Daughter Abruptly Ends

Schizophrenic Mom Lands Random Blows at Five Innocents After Brooklyn Meal With Daughter Abruptly Ends

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