Thursday, June 15, 2006
Cabbie Killed In Crash With Suspected Flasher
Police say a suspected flasher is responsible for a fatal crash in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
In Sunset Park, the mother and mother in law of livery cab driver Luis Jativa mourn his death. He was killed in a bizarre car crash late last night.
Police said a half-naked man, George Boos, 58, of Long Island City was exposing himself to a woman near 50th Street and Ninth Avenue at around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday when police approached him.
Police said he jumped into his van, ran several red lights and slammed into the livery cab. The car was so mangled, the driver had to be cut out of the twisted metal.
Jativa died at the hospital a short time later.
"This wonderful person, nice, respectable, friendly, happy," said family friend John Majia. "I am shocked right now."
The suspected flasher was taken to Lutheran Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the flasher had a BB gun in the van and had been arrested several times before for exposing himself in public over the last five years.
The scene of the car crash is right near I.S. 220.
"I am glad it wasn't when the kids were getting out of school," said I.S. 220 teacher Domenic Frasca. "It's terrible for the livery cab driver, horrible, horrible."
Police said the nearly naked man is not a suspect in a rash of attempted child abductions in the area.
http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/local_story_166061239.html
Police say a suspected flasher is responsible for a fatal crash in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
In Sunset Park, the mother and mother in law of livery cab driver Luis Jativa mourn his death. He was killed in a bizarre car crash late last night.
Police said a half-naked man, George Boos, 58, of Long Island City was exposing himself to a woman near 50th Street and Ninth Avenue at around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday when police approached him.
Police said he jumped into his van, ran several red lights and slammed into the livery cab. The car was so mangled, the driver had to be cut out of the twisted metal.
Jativa died at the hospital a short time later.
"This wonderful person, nice, respectable, friendly, happy," said family friend John Majia. "I am shocked right now."
The suspected flasher was taken to Lutheran Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the flasher had a BB gun in the van and had been arrested several times before for exposing himself in public over the last five years.
The scene of the car crash is right near I.S. 220.
"I am glad it wasn't when the kids were getting out of school," said I.S. 220 teacher Domenic Frasca. "It's terrible for the livery cab driver, horrible, horrible."
Police said the nearly naked man is not a suspect in a rash of attempted child abductions in the area.
http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/local_story_166061239.html
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