A 16-year-old girl was mowed down on a Queens sidewalk by a drunk maniac in an SUV Saturday morning, just moments after the driver made lewd comments to the teen and got into a fight with her boyfriend and mother, police and sources said.
Jhoanny Gomez-Alvarez of Manhattan was fatally struck by a 2009 Chevy Suburban driven by a 38-year-old man following the heated altercation outside Prima Dona on Roosevelt Avenue and Benham Street in Elmhurst just after 4 a.m., cops said.
The driver was highly intoxicated and had been sitting on the steps outside a neighborhood bar when the teen walked out with her boyfriend, mother and her mother’s friend, sources said.
A 16-year-old girl was mowed down on a Queens sidewalk by a drunk maniac in an SUV Saturday morning. Dakota Santiago / FreedomNewsTV
The teen was struck by the drunk stranger around 4 a.m. ABC7
The 16-year-old girl was on a sidewalk when she was struck by an SUV, police and sources said. Dakota Santiago / FreedomNewsTV
Jhoanny Gomez-Alvarez of Manhattan was fatally struck by a 2009 Chevy Suburban driven by a 38-year-old man following the heated altercation at Roosevelt Avenue and Benham Street in Elmhurst. Dakota Santiago / FreedomNewsTVThe scuffle broke out after the driver hurled sexually-charged comments at the teen, police sources said.
After freeing himself from the fight, he jumped into his vehicle and drove up on the sidewalk, pinning the girl against a pillar, the sources said.
The maniac also plowed into the girl’s 32-year-old mother before hitting a parked vehicle while trying to drive off, cops said.
The suspect, who wasn’t immediately identified, was taken into custody, cops said.
Murder charges against him were pending.
The teen was declared dead at the scene and the injured victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition.
Jhoanny Gomez-Alvarez is seen hours before the tragedy. Kevin Downs
The teen victim was declared dead at the scene, cops said. ABC7
The driver of the car struck the late girl’s mother before trying to flee the scene, police and sources said. ABC7Surveillance footage, viewed by The Post, shows the slain teen wearing a white low-cut crop top and jean shorts as she left her apartment building at 4500 Broadway with her boyfriend, mother, and her mother’s beau just before 11 p.m. Friday.
“It’s difficult to see her alive on that video, knowing she died six hours later,” the building super said, adding that the young girl and her family had only been living there for about three months.
“A young woman with so much life in her.”
The suspect, who wasn’t immediately identified, was taken into custody, cops said. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post
The driver made sexually charged comments at the girl before fighting with her mother and boyfriend, police and sources said. Kevin C Downs forThe New York PostThe maintenance chief said he last saw Gomez-Alvarez crying in her bedroom when he entered the unit to make a repair.
Astrid Medjo, 54, who lives in the same building, said she encountered the victim, her mother, and two men in the elevator on at least two occasions.
“It puzzles you, and it makes you think it can happen to anyone,” Medjo said of the deadly collision.
“Really just anyone.”
