Police shot and killed a kidnapping suspect on Belt Parkway Saturday night after he ran into a police roadblock, struck several vehicles and refused to stop his white pickup truck, sources said.
The ordeal began when cops were alerted to a possible kidnapping involving a small, screaming child in the back of a pickup truck with New Jersey license plates.
Officers attempted to stop the van when they spotted it near Exit 8. But the driver refused to stop and sped away east on Belt Parkway around 7:30 p.m., sources said.
A police officer ran in front of traffic and set up a roadblock, but the suspected kidnapper rammed police and civilian vehicles, sources said.
Police on scene then broke the van’s windows and subpoenaed the suspect, described as a black man in his 30s, according to the sources.
Failing to arrest him, the police shot him, hitting the driver. Sources said no children were found in the van.
The suspect, whose name has not been released, was rushed to NYU Langone in Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead around 8 p.m.
The chaos caused a massive traffic jam on the highway as authorities closed both lanes to continue the investigation.
Several wrecked cars, apparently struck by the suspect’s pickup truck, were seen scattered along the roadway. The drivers of the hit vehicles were then questioned by police as witnesses.
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