{"id":224210,"date":"2025-09-13T18:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224210\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:29:15","slug":"driver-fatally-mows-down-16-year-old-girl-on-nyc-sidewalk-after-verbal-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224210\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver fatally mows down 16-year-old girl on NYC sidewalk after verbal spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was struck by a SUV around 4 a.m. ABC7<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old girl was on a sidewalk when she was struck by an SUV, cops said. ABC7<\/p>\n<p>The teen victim was declared dead at the scene, cops said. ABC7<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are looking into whether the driver struck the teen intentionally, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t clear what the dispute was about, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who wasn\u2019t immediately identified, was taken into custody, cops said. <\/p>\n<p>The SUV that struck her crashed into a parked car while trying to flee the scene and the driver was arrested, police said. ABC7<\/p>\n<p>The teen was struck by  man driving an SUV. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Murder charges against him were pending.<\/p>\n<p>The driver appeared to be intoxicated, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/teenage-girl-fatally-struck-by-suv-in-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">witnesses told CBS-NY<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teen was declared dead at the scene and the injured victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old girl is dead after being run over on a Queens sidewalk by an SUV Saturday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":224211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,9366,4413,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-224210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-murders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nypd","18":"tag-pedestrians","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115198412274727997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}