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Broken iPhone led to deadly boyfriend-girlfriend hit-and-run, says NYPD

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(CBS) BRONX, N.Y. - New York City police have arrested Jasmine Diaz, 25, for fatally running down her 17-year-old boyfriend, Frankie Hernandez, after the couple argued over a broken cellphone, CBS New York reports.

Relatives and police said Frankie accidentally dropped and broke Diaz's iPhone, which sent her into a fit of rage. 

The pair had been dating for two years, according to the Hernandez family. Frankie's sister, Narita Santos, told CBS New York that Diaz hit her brother in the head with a bottle and walked away following the argument.

"She was very abusive. She used to hit him all the time," Santos said.

The New York Daily News reports the couple took their quarrel from the Hernandez's Bronx apartment to the street outside. Just before 2 a.m., the Hernandez family found Frankie's broken body lying on the street as Diaz sped off in her SUV.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told the Daily News that Diaz slammed on the gas and ran Frankie down when he stood directly in front of her Lincoln Aviator.

Family members alleged that Diaz ran Frankie down not once, but twice.

"She ran over his whole body," Santos told CBS New York. "She did it twice and then she ran off."

Santos said her brother was crazy in love with Diaz, which was why he tried to follow her. 

Frankie was pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital.

Family members told the Daily News that Diaz abandoned her SUV near her mother's apartment, where police found her hiding and brought her in the precinct for questioning.

Cesar Hernandez, Frankie's brother, said he ran the few blocks from where Frankie died to the Diaz apartment where he pounded in vain on the door.

"I could hear her screaming inside, 'I just hit Frankie. I just hit him. I don't know what to do,'" Cesar told the Daily News.

The Daily News reports that the dead teenager planned to finish William Taft High School and study to become a barber. Frankie was the youngest of six who relatives said was a quiet homebody who managed to stay out of trouble..

"My son was such a peaceful boy," said the victim's mother, Iris Hernandez. "He would never hurt anyone."

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