Art Teacher Who Chased Reporters With Machete Surrenders to NYPD

A former art professor at Hunter College in New York City turned herself in to police on Thursday after she appeared to brandish a machete at a pair of New York Post reporters on Tuesday.
Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, appeared to wave a machete at a New York Post news crew who had visited her apartment building on Tuesday in an incident that was caught on camera. Footage appeared to show Rodriguez holding a bladed weapon at a New York Post reporter Reuven Fenton’s neck and telling him “get the [expletive] away from my door.” After Fenton and a photographer left Rodriguez’s apartment building, she appeared to follow the pair out the front of the building where dash-camera footage showed her chasing the photographer around with the machete….

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