Dramatic video footage captures NYPD cops desperately trying to stop a fleeing kidnapping suspect on the Belt Parkway before they shot and killed the crazed driver.
The Brooklyn officers are seen smashing the windows on the white van as the suspect — identified by law-enforcement sources as 26-year-old Omatoyo Neverson — repeatedly rams police and civilian cars with his vehicle on the packed expressway after a high-speed chase around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, footage posted on X shows.
Police deployed Tasers to try to stop the van’s driver after he rammed through a roadblock near Exit 8, then opened fire when that failed as the vehicle raced toward several officers, sources said.
The driver was pronounced dead at NYU Langone Brooklyn Hospital, police said at an early morning briefing Sunday.
An NYPD lieutenant and three other police officers were suspended over the incident, sources said. The lieutenant was supervising the other officers at the time, sources said. It was not immediately clear why the four cops were sidelined.
The mayhem began when cops received a 911 call about a possible abduction, with the suspect speeding off when cops tried to pull the van over, leading to the wild scene on the Belt.
Despite the reports, there was no kidnap victim in the vehicle.
The initial kidnapping report allegedly involved Neverson’s ex and was classified as a domestic incident, sources said.
The woman was later found uninjured, sources said.
Witnesses told police that the woman was screaming inside the van before jumping out ahead of officers’ arrival, sources said. Neverson, who was wanted in connection with an unlawful-imprisonment report involving the woman earlier this month, allegedly sped away.
According to the sources, Neverson was previously arrested at least twice on criminal-mischief charges, in 2019 and 2021.
The investigation remains ongoing.