Cops hunting for ‘person of interest’ in pickup truck death of Queens mom
Police are hunting “a person of interest” in the horrific Mother’s Day mow-down of a Queens mom, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Monday.
Detectives have a photo of the man they suspect stole a heavy truck and slammed it into 49-year-old Florence Ngwu as he fled, leaving her mortally injured on the pavement outside her home Sunday morning, sources said.
As Ngwu lay dying on the ground, her young daughter screamed, “Mommy! Mommy!” video shows.
Ngwu, a mother of four and a nurse at an area nursing home, clung to life with massive head injuries until she died early Monday at Jamaica Hospital, her shattered family said.
The victim’s older daughter, Princess Ngwu, told The Post on Monday that while the family is glad that cops have identified her mom’s suspected killer, “What’s done is done.
“We can’t bring her back,” Princess said. “It doesn’t really change anything.
“It’s tragic what happened, but it is what it is,” she added. ” We’re OK. She trained us all very well. We were her life — her kids, her husband.”
Princess said she wants her mother to be remembered “as a strong woman.”
“She was a fierce woman, the fiercest woman you’ll ever meet,” she said. “All she ever did was just work, come home, care for us.”
Florence Nguw’s niece said her aunt’s death still feels “so surreal.”
“I can’t believe this is our new reality,” she said, asking that she only be identified as Nnenna B. “Nothing seems to make sense right now, but we’re trying our best to cope with it the best way we know how.”
Nnenna said an arrest would bring some relief to her, at least.
“This person should be held accountable for what he did,” she said. “If this person of interest turns out to actually be the person, I’ll feel so much better knowing it helps bring some justice to it all.”
Shocking video of the incident showed the Ford F-550 truck smashing into several cars while making a U-turn at 167th Street and 120th Avenue before finally shoving one car into Ngwu and wedging her in between two vehicles. The mom had been trying to stop the truck at the time.
The truck, stolen from Pawar Builders in Elmhurst about two hours earlier, was recovered less than a mile from the scene.
