Cops released a photograph Wednesday of a motortruck operator wanted for plowing into a Queens bicyclist during a high velocity constabulary chase successful October.
Bekim Fiseku, 53, was astatine the instrumentality of a Dodge Ram 1500 motortruck on with 2 antheral passengers erstwhile helium deed bicyclist Amanda Servedio, 36, connected Oct. 22, constabulary charge.
The gruesome clang came arsenic cops were responding to a 911 telephone astir a burglary connected 39th Ave. adjacent Crescent St. successful Long Island City astir 11 p.m. The officers spotted the Dodge Ram parked adjacent with portion covering its rear licence plate, and erstwhile the cops walked over, the operator sped off, striking 2 NYPD vehicles, constabulary said.
Cops past chased the Dodge Ram for astir a mile into Astoria, wherever the motortruck operator T-boned Servedio astatine the intersection of 37th St. and 34th Ave., cops said. Servedio had conscionable pedaled into the intersection erstwhile she was hit, surveillance video showed.
Jake Kwok told the Daily News helium was walking his Shiba Inu, Harry, erstwhile Servedio rang her bicycle doorbell to pass him — preventing Kwok from stepping into the oncoming truck.
“She didn’t adjacent scream,“ helium told The News. “She went airborne. She flew similar 30 feet and landed connected a BMW. It was a batch of force.”
The constabulary pursuit of the motortruck ended to assistance Servedio arsenic the Dodge Ram sped off. The motortruck was aboriginal recovered abandoned connected Newtown Road and 47th Ave.
Medics rushed Servedio to Elmhurst Hospital Center but she couldn’t beryllium saved.