A 23-year-old driver faces a long list of charges after he abandoned a woman in the passenger seat of a burning car he crashed and left the scene in a cab.
The stupefying incident happened on Friday, Oct. 13, around 4 a.m. on the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn, New York.
Minutes later firefighters arrived, put out the flames, and discovered the body of 25-year-old Harleen Grewel, of Astoria, Queens, who is believed to have been Ahmed’s date. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ahmed was found and arrested at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn where he was treated for burns to his neck, arms, and legs.
He’s been charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident, aggravated unlicensed operator, and speeding.
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