Suspect in brutal beating of e-bike commuter on Randall’s Island ordered jailed

The suspect accused in the brutal beating of a woman e-bike commuting on Randall’s Island last week has been ordered jailed to await trial, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.

Miguel Jiraud, 30, was arraigned Friday on charges of attempted murder and assault in the late-night attack May 16 on 44-year-old Diana Agudela.

Agudela was commuting home to Queens from her job at the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan, when the attack occurred, according to prosecutors and relatives.

Agudela is not expected to survive and has undergone numerous brain surgeries, Assistant District Attorney Edward Smith said at the arraignment.

Smith said Jiraud was on parole and was released from prison in September after he was convicted of rape in 2013. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for that crime, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

On the night of the May 16 attack, Jiraud was wearing a GPS-monitoring anklet, which prosecutors said placed him at the scene of the beating.

Jiraud attacked Agudela soon after 11:30 p.m. after she crossed onto Randall’s Island, according to prosecutors.

At the time of the attack, Jiraud’s GPS monitor showed he had been near where Agudela was found hours later, according to a criminal complaint.

The tracker also showed him traveling at a high rate of speed – up to 16 miles per hour – while riding the e-bike he stole from Agudela after the attack, Smith said.

Investigators believe Jiraud then threw the stolen bike into the East River, where it was recovered by NYPD scuba divers earlier this week, according to the complaint.

After the attack, the monitor showed Jiraud went to a homeless shelter on the island, according to prosecutors.

Agudela’s daughter, Stephanie Rodas, in an interview with Gothamist earlier this week, urged the city to put surveillance cameras on the path where her mother was attacked.

“ We need more protection, we need more lights,” she said. “It is ridiculous that the park that my mom would ride from to go from work to home had no lights and no cameras.”

Agudela’s mother-in-law, Elva Montoya, said she did not deserve to be attacked.

“She is such a hard worker, and a good mother,” Montoya said in another interview with Gothamist. “She was a defenseless person who was leaving tired from work, coming back to her kids.”

Jiraud is represented by the New York Legal Aid Society, which did not immediately return a request for comment.

Charles Lane contributed reporting.