A 31-year-old woman was killed after being “intentionally” mowed down by a hit-and-run driver who may have been fleeing a nearby knife fight, police said.
The death happened after a nasty dispute at a nearby Queens nightclub, in which four people were slashed, authorities said.
The knife fight unfolded just before 2:45 a.m. Saturday outside the Showtime Bar & Lounge at 119-12 101st Ave, Queens, with four men hurt during the wild episode, cops said.
The NYPD was responding to simultaneous 911 calls of a pedestrian struck at 120th Street and 97th Avenue and a large group fighting two blocks away.
Police arrived to find the woman lying in the roadway with massive body trauma. She was later pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
Authorities did not say whether the driver of a white sedan believed to have struck the woman was involved in the stabbing, which left one man, 23, stabbed in the torso; another, 32, with a slash wound to the face and two other men, both 40, also cut in the face.
The 40-year-old victims were believed to have been hit by the same white sedan involved in the death of the woman, police said.
One of the victims, 31-year-old David Williams, returned to the scene on Saturday afternoon with a bandage on the left side of his face and still wearing his clothes from the night before with hospital-issued socks. He said he came back to look for his phone and jewelry he’d lost.
Williams, who is not from the area, said he was at the bar celebrating his brother’s birthday with family members in a group of four men and four women. They were spending a lot of money — possibly as much as $5,000, a source said — when an argument erupted between a group of locals over the women.
“We bought bottles. They like the fact that we were spending our money,” Williams told The Post.
He said the argument began over “girls,” but added, “To be honest, I’m trying to understand it, what was [said] inside.”
“We were spending a lot of money. I guess they were jealous,” Williams said.
The argument got physical when the group left the club and headed toward their cars. Williams said they tried to get away, but were pursued by members of the other group — armed with knives — before they were hit by the car.
“We all got stabbed,” he said. “I got hit with the car but it wasn’t so bad. I lost my shoe. I lost my phone and jewelry.”
He walked gingerly, stopping to look under parked vehicles and the sidewalks for his belongings.
The victim was one of Williams’ dear friends.
“I lost my friend. My friend died,” he said, his voice cracking. “She got mowed over by a car. I feel numb. She had a kid she took care of, her step kid. I’m still hurt. She was great, one of the best people you could ever have as a friend, man, the best person in the world.”
Surveillance video provided to The Post by a neighbor shows several people in the street as a black car speeds at them and passes by, followed closely behind by the white vehicle sought by police.
Later Saturday morning, shaken residents were trying to make sense of the deadly incident.
Gilbert, 46, an office manager, was awakened from a sound sleep by a man yelling, “Get up! Please get up!” and looked out his window to see first responders trying to revive the woman.
“I could not go back to sleep. I was rolling around in the bed for a while. It was hard,” Gilbert said, adding he saw “chunks of the vehicle’s bumper” in the street.
“It’s sad. It’s really sad,” he said.
Johnny, 32, a neighborhood resident and truck driver, is no fan of the Showtime Bar & Lounge.
“It’s always a problem there. There have been shootings, stabbings…There’s always something going on. It’s never the people that live around here. They park their cars, get into beef, walk back to the cars and stuff happens,” he claimed.
“I want it closed. Everybody around here wants it closed,” he continued. “There are kids around here, I have kids…..nothing happens during the day but you never really know. New York, in general, is getting bad.”
There have been no arrests.
The Showtime Bar could not be immediately reached for comment.