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NY Post
New York Post
14 Aug 2023


NextImg:NYC college professor who threatened to ‘chop’ Post reporter with machete could get plea deal

The unhinged former Manhattan college professor who threatened to “chop” up a Post reporter with a machete appears to be set to strike a plea deal with Bronx prosecutors in the case, it was revealed Monday.

The prospective agreement was discussed in Bronx Criminal Court, where Shellyne Rodriguez, 46, appeared for a hearing flanked by more than a dozen supporters — who shielded her from news photographers and reporters while a large contingent of court officers stood by.

Bronx Criminal Court Judge Matthew Bondy indicated there was a “possible disposition” in the case, in which the since-fired Hunter College arts professor is charged with harassment and menacing for the caught-on-video May 23 assault on reporter Reuven Fenton.

The terms of the deal weren’t revealed, but the judge said he had a letter from Bronx Community Solutions, a neighborhood-based program that offers alternatives to jail for criminal defendants, including counseling and community service, according to its website.

“I also have a supplemental certificate of compliance and notice of readiness from Aug. 13, 2023,” Bondy added. “The parties are requesting extra time for a possible disposition?”

“Yes, your honor,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Timothy Lynch answered.

The judge then set a deadline of Oct. 2 for Rodriguez to take or nix the deal that’s on the table.

Unhinged Hunter College professor Shellyne Rodriguez was charged with menacing, harassment and criminal weapons possession after holding a machete to the throat of a Post reporter and chasing staffers down the street with the weapon.
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At the request of prosecutors, Bondy also extended orders of protection for Rodriguez to stay away from Fenton.

The Bronx District Attorney’s Office did not immediately provide further details on the pending plea deal.

Rodriguez’s defense attorney, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, declined to comment.

Rodriguez first made headlines when she was caught on video flipping out on a group of students who set up a table with anti-abortion materials at the CUNY school on May 2.

Post reporter Reuven Fenton threatened.
Post reporter Reuven Fenton, left, knocked on the door of then-Hunter College professor Shellyn Rodriquez on May 23 to get her side of a meltdown at the Big Apple school — only to have the unhinged educator lunge at him with a machete.
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“You’re not educating s–t. This is f—ing propaganda,” she snapped. “What are you going to do, like anti-trans next?”

The crazed educator then tossed the pamphlets on the floor in front of the stunned students.

On May 23, The Post knocked on the door of her Bronx apartment to get her side of the story — only to have her lunge out into the hallway with a machete that she put to Fenton’s throat, video of the shocking encounter showed.

“Get the f–k away from my door or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete!” Rodriguez shouted before retreating back inside, leaving Fenton and a Post photographer dumbstruck.

Post reporter Reuven Fenton threatened.
Disgraced Hunter College professor Shelynne Rodriguez, right, put a machete to the throat of Post reporter Reuven Fenton on May 23, telling the staffer she would “chop” him up. She later chased Fenton and a photogapher outside.
Robert Miller for the N.Y. Post

When the two left the building, Rodriguez ran after them in the street while wielding the machete, chasing the photographer down the street, video showed.

“If I see you on this block one more f—ing time you’re gonna…,” she began yelling. “Get the f–k off the block! Get the f–k out of here, yo!”

Just hours later Hunter College, where she worked as an adjunct professor, fired her while saying the school “strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez.”

Rodriguez was later charged with harassment, menacing and weapons possession.

She pleaded not guilty.

Former Hunter College professor Shellyne Rodriguez.
Former Hunter College professor Shellyn Rodriguez outside the 43rd Precinct station house in the Bronx. Rodriguez, 46, was charged with harassment, menacing and weapons possession after attacking a Post reporter with a machete.
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The Post learned that she is also the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the NYPD stemming from her arrest during a June 2020 protest to the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minnesota.