Surveillance video from the fatal crash shows Milton Storch, 59, sitting on a walker in front of Rohan Deli on 20th Street Beach early Saturday when a black Honda Civic on the corner reverses, stops and then suddenly drives forward towards the entrance of the store and hits him. The car sent Storch flying face first. His body — stuck between the vehicle and the building — was struck again when the Honda’s driver reversed and sped away, according to the video. A witness said there was a fight outside the store for about five minutes. Milton Storch was sitting in front of Rohan Deli in Queens when he was hit by a car. The condemned man was at the corner of Beach 20th Street and New Haven Avenue where he was killed, a neighborhood resident said. The man “didn’t bother anyone. Every morning I spend here he is here. He’s sitting here, drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette… Wrong place, wrong time,” said Jorge Alberto Senquis, 53. A second man was also injured in the horrific incident, in which bystanders were seen in the clip stepping over the victim as he lay on the pavement in Far Rockaway. The Honda driver was arguing with another woman, possibly a romantic interest, on the street outside the deli just before 7:20 a.m. when he jumped behind the wheel of the parked car, police and witnesses said. At one point, the woman sparring with the Honda driver was caught on surveillance cameras trying to drag the driver out of the car window. Unsuccessful, the woman gave up and proceeded to the deli. Seconds later, the crazy driver aimed the vehicle at her rival — killing the unsuspecting man, police said. Storch, of Far Rockaway, was pronounced dead at St. John’s. The women know each other “and don’t get along,” a police spokeswoman said. The rival women were part of a larger group and one may have fallen for the other’s romantic interest, said an employee at a nearby store who did not want to be named. Freddie Garcia, 18, was working at the laundromat three doors down from the deli when he saw the women arguing.
The two women had entered the deli and were in a good mood, but when they got out, things went sour, he said. The two women who fought reportedly knew each other before the attack. Storch was killed in the incident. Michael Dalton for the NY Post “Somehow they get into the fray. After that they were arguing for maybe five minutes,” said Garcia, who said the argument got him so upset that he locked the doors to keep his customers from getting hurt. “I was worried when they got into the car because I thought they were drunk or drunk,” he added.