[GODREKR]

Queens man clinging to roof of his stolen Lexus critically hurt when teen crooks crash, flip vehicle: ‘It’s hard to wrap your mind around’

February 21, 2023- A 28-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was badly hurt trying to thwart three kids who stole his car in Queens, police said Tuesday.

T. T. was hanging onto the roof of his 2006 Lexus when the crooks slammed into a fire hydrant and flipped the vehicle.

The mayhem began when the teen crooks approached Thompson, who was standing outside his idling vehicle near the Taco Bell on Liberty Ave. near 120th St. in South Ozone Park around 9:45 p.m. Monday, cops said.

The trio jumped into the Lexus and took off but not before the victim, who lives about a half mile away, jumped onto the vehicle’s roof.

With the victim still clinging to the roof frame, the crooks crashed less than 200 feet away at Liberty Ave. and Lefferts Blvd., cops said.

The crooks ran off, but police quickly nabbed two of them, both 15. Medics rushed Thompson to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition.

“We’re hoping for the best,” the man’s concerned friend and neighbor, who only wanted to be identified as Gigi, told the Daily News. “The last thing that they told us when we were at the hospital is that the meds were helping.”

Once T.’s mother got word of her son’s serious injuries, she rushed to the city from Florida, according to the friend.

T.’s cousin, who Gigi said is like a sibling to the victim, is also with his mother as doctors closely monitor his condition.

“He’s heavily loved — he has a big family,” said Gigi, 30. “I want to be positive ’cause that’s how he would be in this situation. I feel like he’s a fighter, he has a purpose here on this Earth.”

T. works full time at home and delivers food for DoorDash at night. Friends and family believe he was making deliveries when the teens ambushed him.

“I don’t know what to say,” Gigi said of his decision to hop on the hood of the car. “He needed his car for work, I kind of understand.

“I can only imagine what was probably going through his head at that moment,” she added.

T. is also a musician, according to his friend.

“He’s very full of life and positive,” Gigi said. “He’s a loving person, he really loves his dog. He just has great energy about him.”

Charges against the teens were pending Tuesday evening.

“It’s hard to wrap your mind around,” Gigi said of the young crooks. “You want to be sympathetic ’cause they’re minors but also, what would possess them to take a car? Do they even know how to drive?

“I’m still taking it in,” she added. “It’s like a series of unfortunate events.”

[houseoftechno]

The thieves ruined a young man's life, destroyed his car, maybe killed him. Then ran away to leave him die. They will be walking the streets again in a few years, doing it again.

[kellyhound]

escaping like cockroaches trapped in a can. Too bad the first one wasn't hit by traffic when crossing the street.

[Barky]

Death would be too good for em. Vermin.

[Faline]

weeeee

[durt]

^^

[Trucked up]

It's fend for yourself time after the crash, driver makes it out & gone.