Police: Hit-And-Run Suspect Takes 71-Year-Old Victim Home, Gives Her Bogus ID Information
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Police said a hit-and-run driver posing as a Good Samaritan escorted a Brooklyn grandmother from the scene of an accident to her home in Brooklyn earlier this month.
It appeared that the man was doing the right thing, but police said he turned out to be a sinister fraud. As CBS2's Jessica Moore reported, police said the man lied about who he was and left her to deal with her injuries alone.
"She thought at first they were just trying to be nice and helpful," said Anar Nasimov – interpreting for his grandmother, Sonya Nasimova, 71.
Nasimova said a teen who appears in surveillance video and his father were the reason she ended up stuck on her couch with a fractured eleg – with no way to find the people responsible.
"How can somebody do something like that and then leave -- an old lady?" grandson Nasimov said.
Nasimova said she was walking home from a friend's house nearby when out of nowhere, the car hit her from behind -- leaving her lying in the street right.
She explained through her grandson what happened after she was hit on Dec. 7 at the corner of Quentin Road and East 21st Street in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
"The father came out of the car and said: 'Come on, come on I'll take you home. I'll take you home. Home, home, home, home'" Nasimov said.
Nasimova said the son wrote down his contact information on a bank deposit slip. He left the name "Ezra Man" – sort of like "every man" – along with a phone number and license plate number.
They were all fake.
Nasimov said his grandmother did not realize they were frauds "until we checked the information and realized it was wrong."
The suspects took off without calling the police or EMS to help Nasimova.
When the shock wore off, Nasimova said the reality of her injuries set in.
"She says the pain started on the street, so when she got home and everything settled down, she was in a lot of pain yelling and screaming -- so we called 911," Nasimov said.
Nasimova had suffered a fractured right leg, and emergency responders took her to the hospital after the 911 call was made. She has since been treated and released.
But she will spend two months in a leg brace, and her sense of security has been stolen.
At least her sense of humor is very much intact.
"She said, 'I would see them and I would spit in their face,'" Nasimov said. "I don't know what I should tell them. Should I thank them for this? Who does this?"
The younger suspect in the video is described as 18 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall with black hair.
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