Home News Parking space row leaves Guyanese man dead in NYC
A Guyanese man died on Sunday morning after he was struck down by an irate driver, who drove his car into a crowd after slashing two other men during a row over parking space on Liberty Avenue near 127th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York.
Dead is 22-year-old Richardo Chatergoon of Far Rockaway, Queens. The suspect, Adrian Harry, 22, was on Monday charged with murder, assault, and reckless endangerment.
Reports are that at 04:00h, Harry scraped a parked BMW while trying to parallel park his white Hyundai Sonata. This resulted in a heated argument among the suspect and two men, during which he whipped out a knife and slashed the victims.
After committing the act, he allegedly drove his car into a half-dozen good Samaritans who had intervened. Chatergoon was one of those six people.
The others hospitalised include a 29-year-old man with a head injury, a 27-year-old with a hurt leg, a 29-year-old man with a broken pelvis and a 20-year-old woman who suffered a broken leg.
After fleeing the scene, the suspect was arrested. According to the New York Post, Harry was held at the 106th Precinct station house in Ozone Park until his court appearance on Monday.
Chatergoon migrated to the United States about 18 months ago, to live with his family.