The suspect in the sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl he allegedly kidnapped from a Queens supermarket as she shopped with her grandmother a night ago died in a car crash while fleeing from officers, according to police.
The car, a silver Honda Civic sedan, was initially spotted by officers around 12:30 p.m. Friday near 212th Street and Hillside Avenue in Queens Village, police said in a Friday evening press conference. Officers tried to pull the car over, but the driver refused and sped off, blowing through a stop sign and smashing into another car in the process.
The driver of the car was seriously injured in the T-bone crash and officers attempted to perform life-saving measures on the man.
“The police officer was saying [to] that guy, ‘Show me your hands, show me yours hands,'” said witness Ashik Amin, who was at home when he heard the crash and raced outside. “He wasn’t responding or …