3dGameMan
09-17-2004, 10:19 AM
Man jumps from cop car going 70 mph: ~source (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/232284p-199474c.html)
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BY NANCY DILLON in Fayetteville, N.C.,
and BILL HUTCHINSON in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A shackled Queens man hurled himself out of a police car going 70 mph on a North Carolina highway yesterday - in a brazen attempt to escape justice for abducting his wife.
In a dramatic scene witnessed by a Daily News reporter and photographer, Miguel Carrasquillo hit Interstate 40 head and shoulder first and rolled about a dozen times off the road into grass and mud.
The cruiser slammed on the brakes. A trailing unmarked police car and The News' vehicle swerved wildly to avoid the would-be Houdini, whose hands were cuffed in front of him and linked to a chain around his waist.
The suspect's face and arms were bloody. A hole was ripped in the back of his white T-shirt. But he wouldn't give up his fight.
Carrasquillo, 33, propped himself up on his knees as cops screamed at him to be still. At one point he seemed to be pleading with police as blood poured down his mud-caked face.
It marked the latest twist in a bizarre story that began Saturday morning when Carrasquillo allegedly snatched his estranged wife from her job at Elmhurst Hospital Center and shot one of her colleagues in the face.
He was nabbed 42-1/2 hours and 562 miles later when the Greyhound bus he allegedly forced Nancy Carrasquillo onto pulled into Fayetteville, N.C. - and was greeted by local cops acting on a tip passed along by the NYPD.
It took five of Fayetteville's Finest to subdue Carrasquillo, who had stashed a gun in some fried rice, cops said.
Authorities said the relieved 42-year-old mother of four told them after her rescue early Monday that her husband was bent on killing her and himself.
"It was a race against time," the woman's 16-year-old son, Danny Carrero, of Queens, said yesterday. "If he had had more time, he would have done something to her. It was that close."
Last night, joyous relatives were preparing for a reunion with Nancy Carrasquillo, who told cops she felt lucky to be alive.
"She's doing good," her sister said last night as she stopped by the woman's Elmhurst home to gather some of her clothes.
The drama seemed to have ended with Miguel Carrasquillo's capture at 3:30 a.m. Monday.
But less than 12 hours later, he did his best to spoil the happy ending.
After Carrasquillo waived extradition, he was ordered sent back to New York to face charges that could put him behind bars for life.
The shackled suspect was put into the back of a Fayetteville police cruiser that was to take him to Raleigh-Durham International Airport for a flight to New York...
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BY NANCY DILLON in Fayetteville, N.C.,
and BILL HUTCHINSON in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A shackled Queens man hurled himself out of a police car going 70 mph on a North Carolina highway yesterday - in a brazen attempt to escape justice for abducting his wife.
In a dramatic scene witnessed by a Daily News reporter and photographer, Miguel Carrasquillo hit Interstate 40 head and shoulder first and rolled about a dozen times off the road into grass and mud.
The cruiser slammed on the brakes. A trailing unmarked police car and The News' vehicle swerved wildly to avoid the would-be Houdini, whose hands were cuffed in front of him and linked to a chain around his waist.
The suspect's face and arms were bloody. A hole was ripped in the back of his white T-shirt. But he wouldn't give up his fight.
Carrasquillo, 33, propped himself up on his knees as cops screamed at him to be still. At one point he seemed to be pleading with police as blood poured down his mud-caked face.
It marked the latest twist in a bizarre story that began Saturday morning when Carrasquillo allegedly snatched his estranged wife from her job at Elmhurst Hospital Center and shot one of her colleagues in the face.
He was nabbed 42-1/2 hours and 562 miles later when the Greyhound bus he allegedly forced Nancy Carrasquillo onto pulled into Fayetteville, N.C. - and was greeted by local cops acting on a tip passed along by the NYPD.
It took five of Fayetteville's Finest to subdue Carrasquillo, who had stashed a gun in some fried rice, cops said.
Authorities said the relieved 42-year-old mother of four told them after her rescue early Monday that her husband was bent on killing her and himself.
"It was a race against time," the woman's 16-year-old son, Danny Carrero, of Queens, said yesterday. "If he had had more time, he would have done something to her. It was that close."
Last night, joyous relatives were preparing for a reunion with Nancy Carrasquillo, who told cops she felt lucky to be alive.
"She's doing good," her sister said last night as she stopped by the woman's Elmhurst home to gather some of her clothes.
The drama seemed to have ended with Miguel Carrasquillo's capture at 3:30 a.m. Monday.
But less than 12 hours later, he did his best to spoil the happy ending.
After Carrasquillo waived extradition, he was ordered sent back to New York to face charges that could put him behind bars for life.
The shackled suspect was put into the back of a Fayetteville police cruiser that was to take him to Raleigh-Durham International Airport for a flight to New York...