NYPD: Driver takes off after killing pedestrian in Queens
NEW YORK -- A man with a walker was killed Saturday when a woman got into a vehicle and jumped a curb during a fight in Queens.
Police say it began when two women got into a fight on the sidewalk that escalated when one of them got into a car and tried to run the other over.
It happened around 7:20 a.m. in front of a corner store on Beach 20th Street in Far Rockaway.
As CBS2's Alecia Reid reports, a fight between two women outside Rohan Deli took a turn for the worse. It was all caught on surveillance.
One of the women eventually got into the driver's seat of a black Honda, hopped the curb and started driving on the sidewalk towards the woman she had been fighting.
"Lack of regard, lack of regard. Someone who obviously does not need to be on the street. Someone that needs to be held accountable," Assemblyman Khaleel Anderson said.
The driver struck Milton Storch, who was sitting outside the store on his walker. She then reversed, running over the disabled 59-year-old a second time.
Emergency services tended to Storch at the scene before rushing him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Neighbors say they could always find him helping out at the corner store.
"When they do deliveries and stuff, he's always doing a whole bunch of stuff in his wheelchair. Because that's how he make his little money. He can't work or do certain things, but if they need him to look out and certain things, he makes sure he takes care it," neighbor Shannon Lee said.
Police scoured the area for hours, searching for any evidence that can help lead them to the suspect, but the driver is still at large.
The second woman involved in the fight also left the scene.
The other victim, a man in his 30s, is in stable condition.