Woman targeted and fatally struck down by Queens hit-and-run driver amid wild street melee, say NYPD and witnesses

Liam Quigley, Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News
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A hit-and-run driver deliberately ran down and killed a 31-year-old woman amid a chaotic melee early Saturday morning in Queens, police sources and witnesses said.

The deadly altercation began around 2:30 a.m. in South Richmond Hill as a large fight broke out in a bar, the Showtime Bar and Lounge, in the business district near the corner of 101st Ave. and 120th St., police and witnesses said.

The rolling melee worked its way down 120th St., and surveillance video shows a man lobbing a bag of garbage at another man who appears to be holding a blade.

A neighbor said she was awakened by a crashing noise, and that when she looked outside, she saw a man being beaten in the middle of the street.

“Everyone was hitting this one guy — it was like fifteen of them,” the woman said. “The ladies were just screaming and yelling. I thought everybody was drunk.”

Someone in the group jumped into a white Nissan sedan, said police. The neighbor said she saw a white car flying down the block, narrowly missing the man being beaten.

Near the intersection of 120th St. and 97th Ave., the Nissan driver aimed the car into a woman in the group before speeding off, police said.

EMS rushed the woman to Jamaica Hospital, where she died. Her name was not immediately disclosed as cops track down family members.

Four men injured in the melee made their own way to Jamaica Hospital and NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens in Hillcrest, police said. All had slash or stab wounds, and two of the men also appeared to have been hit by the Nissan, said cops.

Cops were hunting for the Nissan sedan Saturday. No arrests have been made.

In an unrelated case, a woman riding a bicycle collided with a black SUV near the intersection of Cortelyou Road and New York Ave. in East Flatbush, Brooklyn about 11:10 p.m. Friday, police said.

When first responders arrived, they found the victim, 53, sprawled out on the asphalt. The SUV sped off, witnesses told cops.

EMS rushed the woman to Kings County Hospital, where she was clinging to life Saturday with critical injuries, police said.