By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-11-21 13:08:12 | Updated at 2024-11-21 18:40:31
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Police have identified the suspected burglar wanted for mowing down a female bicyclist with his truck while fleeing police in Queens last month.
Bekim Fiseku, 53, is wanted for homicide over the death of 36-year-old Amanda Servedio in Astoria, who was run down just two blocks from her home at around 11 p.m. on Oct. 22, the NYPD said Wednesday.
Surveillance video obtained by The Post showed a speeding Dodge Ram hit the passing cyclist at the intersection of 34th Avenue and 37th Street — hurling Servedio from her ride into a parked BMW, police said.
She was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital where she died from her injuries.
Cops were responding to a report of a burglary 10 minutes earlier at 39th Avenue and Crescent Street in Dutch Kills — just over a mile away – when they spotted the pickup with a covered rear license plate, authorities and sources said.
The officers began following the truck, believing the three occupants inside to be suspects in the burglary, but the driver refused to stop and sped off.
Police immediately ended their pursuit after the fatal crash to tend to Servedio, who had suffered trauma to the head and body.
The truck fled the scene and was later found abandoned near Newtown Road and 47th Street.
Her devastated mother was spotted sobbing outside of her apartment building the following morning being consoled by friends and neighbors.
Servedio, an Arkansas native who worked as a senior tax accountant at a Midtown firm, had been living alone in Astoria for some time, according to her neighbors.
She tracked her bike rides on the exercise app Strava – which showed she regularly went on treks as long as 26 miles.
Servedio “was a real cyclist,” according to her neighbor, Phillips.
“You regularly see her coming in and out with her bicycle on her shoulder. She did a lot of organized rides,” the neighbor told the Post last month.
“She rode a lot. And she rode with organized groups and you’d regularly see her coming in after these long organized rides walking up the stairs with [the bike on] her shoulder.”
