Police have identified a robbery suspect wanted for mowing down a female bicyclist with a truck while fleeing police in Queens last month.
New York City police said Wednesday that Bekim Fisek, 53, is wanted on suspicion of murder in the fatal crash of Amanda Cervedio, 36, of Astoria, just two blocks from her home around 11 p.m. It was announced that there was.
Surveillance video obtained by the newspaper shows a speeding Dodge Ram colliding with a passing bicycle at the intersection of 34th and 37th Streets, then Saabdio getting out of the car and walking into a parked car. Police said he was seen being thrown into a BMW.
She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where she died from her injuries.
Ten minutes earlier, police had responded to a report of a robbery at 39th Avenue and Crescent Street in Dutch Kills, about a mile away, when they saw a pickup truck with its rear license plate covered, authorities and sources said. It is said that he discovered.
Police believed the three people inside were robbery suspects and began pursuing the truck, but the driver refused to stop and sped away.
Police immediately ended the pursuit to treat Servedio, who suffered head and body injuries after the fatal accident.
The truck fled the scene and was later found abandoned near Newtown Road and 47th Street.
The devastated mother was seen sobbing outside her apartment the next morning as friends and neighbors comforted her.
Neighbors said Serdio, an Arkansas native who worked as a senior tax accountant at a Midtown firm, had been living alone in Astoria for some time.
She records her bike rides on the exercise app Strava, and can be seen regularly trekking up to 42 miles.
Neighbor Phillips said Saabdio was “a real cyclist.”
“You would often see her coming and going with her bike on her shoulder. She would often ride in her car in an organized manner,” a neighbor told the Post last month.
“She rode a lot, and she rode with organized groups, and we regularly saw her walking up the stairs after these long organized rides. I saw it on. [the bike on] her shoulders. ”
