By The newspaper
Apr 25, 2024, 12:37 PM EDT
A crash and chase between two cars ended when one driver stabbed the other at dusk on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (NYC).
The drivers were first caught on surveillance camera Tuesday in the Manhattan-bound lanes of the Queensboro Bridge, where Antil Lakatos, behind the wheel of a black Mercedes-Benz, apparently intentionally rammed his car into the car’s yellow Dodge Ram. Shaker Ahmad, the NYPD said yesterday. The reason for the original confrontation is unclear.
Lakatos (28) and Ahmad (38) continued driving to Manhattan, repeatedly cutting each other off. When the men arrived at the intersection of E. 62nd St. and Lexington Ave. around 6:50 p.m., Lakatos crashed into Ahmad’s car again, NYPD said.
The impact sent Ahmad’s car careening into a telephone pole, where it crashed. That driver then got out of his car armed with a knife and stabbed Lakatos in the face, torso and calf, he described. DailyNews.
Paramedics took Lakatos to Weill Cornell Presbyterian Hospital in New York, where he was treated and later charged with assault. Meanwhile, police charged Ahmad with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
Road violence has become a constant in New York. Last week, a 19-year-old Latino teenager died in the arms of his father after being stabbed in the heart during a fight over parking in the Bronx (NYC).
At the end of March, two gang members were sentenced for killing a young man on Long Island after a traffic fight and are awaiting trial for another similar homicide in New Jersey. In January, a woman fatally knocked over a Hispanic woman while fighting over a man in a public housing building (NYCHA) in East New York, Brooklyn.
In October, Francis Ortega, a 50-year-old man, was fatally run over in the middle of an argument after a simple crash at an intersection in Astoria. Just a day earlier, a 68-year-old immigrant grandfather was beaten to death after a minor crash in Queens.
In August, Fausto Rodríguez, a 40-year-old Dominican father, was shot and killed when a crash turned violent on the Cross Bronx Expressway, leaving four children orphaned. In September, an aspiring model teacher died days after being shot in the head outside the Home Depot in Brooklyn, NY, in an apparent fight over a parking spot.
In June Javier Muñoz (29) and Joshua Rivera (22) were arrested on suspicion of having killed Jeremy Cancel (34) in a street fight following a minor collision between cars, at the close of Puerto Rico Day in New York.
In March 2023, a Latino couple was charged with attempted murder after the brutal attack on their neighbor in an alleged fight over a parking space in Queens (NYC).