HORROR BX. TALE
Fleeing slay suspect run down by vic’s beau
Surveillance video captured the Bronx murder of a female construction worker — and her boyfriend slamming his car into the suspect as he fled on a bicycle.
Shocking footage obtained by News 12 shows the takedown of 66-year-old Geraldo Reyes moments after he allegedly shot Lizbeth Mass, 52, on City Island Wednesday.
As Reyes pedals off near City Island Avenue and City Island Road — after allegedly pumping six bullets into the victim — Mass’ boyfriend is seen plowing into him from behind.
Upon impact, Reyes goes flying over the windshield, landing in the street before he’s struck a second time as the vehicle reverses with its driver-side door ajar.
Reyes manages to stand up, but is immediately corralled by an unidentified man who pushes him to the hood of the car and repeatedly punches him in the head.
An on-duty undercover IRS agent at the scene then handcuffed the suspect for cops, police sources told The Post.
Reyes and Mass were rushed to a hospital, where she died.
It was not immediately clear if Mass’ boyfriend would face charges.
Reyes allegedly used a gun he stole from a retired NYPD housing cop to carry out the crime, the sources said.
The suspect was working for the ex-officer as a handyman in the hours before the shooting.
The retired cop told investigators he saw the story in news reports, recognized the weapon — a .44-caliber Smith & Wesson — and realized his gun was missing, according to the sources.
The weapon had never been fired prior to Wednesday’s shooting, the sources added.
Mass moved into a building in Bushwick last spring after her mother died of COVID-19, neighbors said Thursday morning.
One 47-year-old neighbor, who identified himself only as Charles M., said he had just seen Mass Wednesday morning.
“She was a very hands-on person,” he said, adding that she used to shovel snow. “She wasn’t girlygirly. She would get down and dirty — that also came with her job.”
Police did not immediately know a motive in the slaying.