From The Gothamist
Police are still looking for a driver who called a Sikh man in Queens a “terrorist” before running him over with his pickup truck and dragging him 30 feet.
The Village Voice reports that Sandeep Singh was crossing 99th Street at 101 Avenue in Richmond Hill with his friends when the driver became angry that the group was blocking his car, and told him to “go back to your country.” While Singh blocked the path of the truck as his friends called police, the driver ran over Singh, dragging him through the street.
Singh, who is 29, owns a construction business, and has two children, needed more than 20 stitches and remains hospitalized after internal bleeding required stomach surgery, the Times Ledger reports.
“He had pipes in his nose, mouth, bruises all over,” his wife said. “His whole back, from his neck to his lower back, he has really bad road rash that’s going to need skin grafting.”
“He was walking too slow for the gentleman, or actually the animal. And he said something about, ‘Go back to your country, Bin Laden,’” she added. “When Sandeep protested, the man ran him over, dragged him 30 feet under the truck and left him to die.”
Singh’s brother, Navdeep Singh, said he had to collect surveillance footage from nearby bodegas and bring them to the 102 Precinct himself, because the NYPD hadn’t bothered to do so.
“I want justice for my brother. They have to take this case very seriously because it’s attempted murder plus it’s a hate crime.”
