Police: Man Found Shot In Overturned Car In Brooklyn
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The death of man who police said was found shot inside an overturned vehicle in Brooklyn is being investigated as a homicide.
Police found the overturned black BMW just after 10 p.m. Thursday at Farragut and East 82nd Street in Canarsie.
"It was violent," witness Ray Fairweather told CBS2's Steve Langford. "I thought my house was hit."
When police pulled the 22-year-old driver from the car, they said he had a gunshot wound to the torso. The side of the vehicle had five bullet holes, Langford reported.
"I just thought he went unconscious because of the accident, but it was when they turned him over and I saw the wound and blood on his back, that I said, 'wait a minute, something else is going on here,'" said Fairweather.
Another witness, who did not want to be identified, said she was in her car with her baby daughter as the BMW came crashing down the street.
"I was in the car and I seen the entire accident happen in front of my eyes," she said. "It started to hit all the cars and then it got airborne and ended up on the other side of the street."
The car first started crashing into vehicles before hitting a car, going airborne, and landing at the corner.
"A lot of noise, banging, wheels coming off, it kind of flew, parts were flying especially like glass and everything," the woman said.
The impact of the collision was so powerful that one of the slain driver's wheels landed a couple of hundred feet from where the vehicle landed.
A woman who had been unloading groceries managed to flee to the sidewalk just before the cascading collision hit her car.
The driver was taken Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been released.
The investigation is ongoing.