Stunning NYPD body cam footage captures the moment a reckless teen driver hits a police officer with his stolen car before leading officers on a rooftop chase.
Keyah Richardson, 19, was driving a stolen white sedan when police stopped him at the corner of 34th Avenue and 99th Street in North Corona around 5 p.m. Sunday, police said.
“Don’t move, don’t move, police!” one officer yelled before drawing his weapon, according to a video released by NYPD Deputy Chief of Operations Kaz Daughtry.
The driver is seen reversing onto the sidewalk – narrowly missing a little girl who was walking with her mother – before crashing into the lowered metal shutters of a building down the block.
“Hey, get out of the car! Don’t move!” the officer ordered.
Instead, the driver stepped on the accelerator and collided with another police officer with a screeching noise. As the footage shows, the officer was trapped between the limousine and a parked car.
Richardson then accelerated to escape, driving for several blocks and hitting several cars before abandoning his car and leading his pursuers on an obstacle course, Daughtry said.
“Their (Community Response Team) officers did not let him escape after he tried to kill one of them,” Daughtry said.
“They followed him on foot to line 7, from the platform onto the street, to a building, up a ladder, onto the roof of a building and jumped onto a second roof,” said the police officer. “He had no chance of escaping and was trapped.”
Richardson was lying on the floor of the second roof when police approached him.
“Don’t move!” warned an officer as he approached with a gun in his hand.
“I didn’t do anything,” Richardson was heard saying before police handcuffed him.
“With the help of our NYPD flight units and the support of the ESU, we were finally able to stop the suspect’s rampage and arrest him,” Daughtry wrote.
Richardson faces nearly a dozen charges, including attempted aggravated murder, first-degree reckless endangerment, hit-and-run with injury, assault with a vehicle, fleeing from a police officer with a motor vehicle and grand theft auto, police said.
According to authorities, he had never been arrested before.
The officer was treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, the NYPD said.
“Another stolen car recovered, another violent criminal taken off your streets, and most importantly, your police officers are going home to their families,” Daughtry wrote.