Flood of grief for ‘sweet’ gal visiting with

AN 18-YEAR-OLD Michigan tourist was the lone person killed Thursday when a speeding car barreled into pedestrians in Times Square.

Alyssa Elsman was visiting New York with her mother and 13-year-old sister when she was mowed down by deranged motorist Richard Rojas, cops said.

“I just found out,” a sobbing relative told the Daily News.

Elsman was struck and killed on a Seventh Ave. sidewalk between 42nd and 43rd Sts. Her sister, Ava, was also hit, authorities said. She and her family were planning to return to Michigan on Tuesday.

The brownhaired teen was working as a carhop at a Sonic Drive-in and studying at a community college near her home outside of Kalamazoo.

“She was sweet and really laid back,” said Stacey Vogl, the mother of Elsman’s boyfriend Trevor West. “She was the one person that brought my son joy.”

Elsman’s aunt, Shelly Lynne Dusek, posted her pain on Facebook.

“My niece,” she wrote. “I’m heartbroken.”

Elsman graduated last year from Portage Central High School, where the principal remembered her as an outgoing student who made muffins and sold them from a cart to support the school’s food program.

“She was thoughtful,” Principal Eric Alburtus told milive.com. “She was bright. She was engaging when you talked with her. You’d stop to look at the muffins and end up talking to her. She was very outgoing.”

Elsman’s friends and even perfect strangers from as far away as Western Europe flooded her Facebook page and other sites with tributes.

“I’m so broken. I love you until the end of time. RIP Alyssa elsman (sic) 07-06-1998 - 05-18-2017,” friend Abby McGuire tweeted. “I wish I could bring you back. I love