Suspect arrested in cabbie road rage death Caught, questioned in Pennsylvania

Suspect arrested in cabbie road rage death
Caught, questioned in Pennsylvania
Eyewitness News
(New York-WABC, November 21, 2007) - A 24-year-old was arrested after being extradited to New York in the apparent road rage-related death of a taxi driver.


Charges are pending against Flores, suspected in the hit and run death of a hard-working taxi driver on the Upper East Side.

Flores appeared before a judge this morning in Chester County on a local fugitive charge.

He waived extradition and was returned to New York City.

Authorities had cast a wide net for the suspect, asking police in Norwalk, Connecticut, to visit a location in their search for suspects.

Police say they quickly caught the woman. No charges were filed against her.

Forty-four year-old Elwaleed Mohamed was run down after getting out his cab to settle a road rage dispute with another driver. And following the tragedy, the two occupants of the striking car, a 2005 Nissan Altima, leaped out and fled on foot.

Authorities say Mohamed pulled over at the intersection of East 65th Street and Madison Avenue to settle the dispute just after 12:25 a.m.

But instead of getting out himself, the driver of the Altima ran Mohamed down.

The male driver and female passenger of the Altima then allegedly ditched the car at the scene and fled.

Mohamed, a loving husband and the father of two young boys, was pinned under his cab. Police had to use a hydraulic lift to remove him.

"He was completely under the car," witness Tony Benevento said. "He didn't move at all."

The taxi driver was pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Authorities say the two occupants of the Altima ran north on Madison Avenue and then west on East 66th Street.

"I turned around and a guy and girl are running up the block," Benevento said.


As family and friends consoled Mohamed's wife inside her Brooklyn home, police tracked the car's owner to a high-rise apartment building in Harlem. There, Marvin Loyola said his cousin was the last person to drive the vehicle.

Loyola told Eyewitness News that he hasn't seen his cousin and knows nothing of the incident.

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