Goons rob Qns. senior at home
A HEARTLESS motorist left his 25-year-old passenger to die after he crashed on the BrooklynQueens Expressway and his car burst into flames, police sources said.
Saeed Ahmad, 23, was weaving in and out of traffic on the westbound side of the BQE when his 2007 Infiniti G35 hit the median in the left lane. The car spun out of control near the Prospect Expressway about 4 a.m., witnesses told police.
The car came to rest facing against traffic in the center lane. As flames consumed the inside of the car, Ahmad jumped out and ran off, police sources said.
His friend, identified by sources as 25-year-old Harleen Grewal of Astoria, Queens, wasn’t so lucky.
Firefighters putting out the blaze found Grewal’s charred body in the front passenger seat.
Ahmad flagged down a taxi near the scene of the crash and took it to Maimonides Medical Center, police sources said. He was being treated there for burns to his arms and legs.
Cops caught up with him at the hospital and charged him with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and speeding. His arraignment was pending in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Friday.
Ahmad, who lives in Flatlands, Brooklyn, admitted to having a few drinks before the crash but was not legally drunk when his blood was tested at the hospital, police sources said.
Ahmad’s relatives said he tried to save Grewal, but couldn’t.
“He said the girl that was in the car was stuck in there and he tried to get her out, that’s why his arms were burned,” said Saeed’s brother Waheed Ahmad. “He couldn’t...it was too late for her.”
Grewal worked for a catering company. She often had friends help her out at events, her family said.
Sometimes she took the train home. Sometimes family would pick her up. And other times people she was working with would drop her off at home, relatives said.
The family said it was normal for her to work late.
Police are investigating an unrelated crash after a car hit and critically injured a bicyclist at about 10 a.m. Thursday at E. 106th St. and Third Ave. on the Upper East Side, sources said.
The driver was going east on E. 106th St. with the green light, when the cyclist ran a red light going north on Third Ave., sources said. The cyclist smashed into the windshield.
Medics took the cyclist to St. Luke’s Hospital in critical condition.
There have been 167 fatal crashes in 2017, compared with 182 in 2016. A PAIR of brazen crooks robbed an elderly woman in her Queens home Friday, authorities said.
The bandits, both wearing skimasks, busted into the home on 114th Ave. near 223rd St. in Cambria Heights around 7:45 p.m. according to police.
Police hopped through a back window and found an 83-yearold woman on the second floor, the NYPD said.
The duo pushed the octogenarian to the floor and threatened to shoot her before ransacking the house, according to cops.
They ran back through the kitchen with a haul of cash and jewels, cops said. The woman was not hurt in the heist. BROOKLYN’S Borough President has offered a $1,000 reward for the crooks in a terrifying Brooklyn home invasion that led to the death of a 91-year-old man.
“This is a time for mournful prayer, and a time for purposeful action,” Beep Eric Adams said in a statement. “I am personally putting up $1,000 for any information that leads to the arrest and indictment of these violent felons.”
Waldiman Thompson and his 100-year-old wife, Ethlin, were tied up Wednesday around 3:15 p.m. inside their brownstone on Decatur St. near Marcus Garvey Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to cops.