A 16-year-old girl is dead after being run over on a Queens sidewalk by an SUV Saturday morning, shortly after the driver had gotten into a heated argument with the teen, 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 a verbal altercation at Roosevelt Avenue and Benham Street in Elmhurst just after 4 a.m., cops said.
Following the deadly encounter, the brazen driver then plowed into a 32-year-old woman before hitting a parked vehicle while trying to flee the scene, cops said.
Investigators are looking into whether the driver struck the teen intentionally, police said.
It wasn’t clear what the dispute was about, cops said.
The driver, who wasn’t immediately identified, was taken into custody, cops said.
Murder charges against him were pending.
The driver appeared to be intoxicated, witnesses told CBS-NY.
The teen was declared dead at the scene and the injured victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition.
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