A 24-year-old man was busted in Pennsylvania yesterday in the road-rage killing of a cabby on the Upper East Side.
Luis Flores ran over Mohamed El Waleed at Madison Avenue and 65th Street early Tuesday after a fender-bender, cops said. Flores was charged with manslaughter, assault and other offenses.
While cops were escorting Flores to Manhattan, mourners at a Brooklyn mosque remembered the 44-year-old Sudanese-immigrant victim as a dedicated husband and father of two young boys.
“He was a good person, a beautiful man, all about his family,” said fellow cabby Kaml Ali. Witnesses said El Waleed had stepped out of his taxi to try to exchange information with Flores after the two cars brushed. Cops said the suspect hit the accelerator and heartlessly mowed down El Waleed.
Just after the tragedy, Flores told family friend William Angeles, 40, that El Waleed was the aggressor.
Angeles spoke with the suspect after the incident and before he fled to Pennsylvania.
“He’s a young fella, and he’s afraid. That’s what he told me,” Angeles said. “I said, ‘Luis, the best thing is to go to police and let them see what happened.’ ”
El Waleed will be buried in Sudan.