QUEENS SUPREME COURT — A Queens man pleaded guilty Thursday for fleeing the scene after he fatally struck a pedestrian earlier this year, the Queens District Attorney said.
Aftab Safdar, 28, of Jamaica, was driving his blue Nissan Sentra at around 4:40 a.m. on Feb. 28 when he struck Besik Shengelia, 48, near 111th Street and 109th Avenue in South Ozone Park, prosecutors said.
Shengelia was rushed to a local Queens Hospital, but died of severe head trauma from the crash.
Safdar fled the scene and did not call the police, the prosecutor said.
Through an "intensive joint investigation" by the Queens DA and the NYPD, they were later able to identify Safdar as the driver, District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement.
Safdar pleaded guilty to the felony charge of leaving the scene of an incident.
Judge Dorothy Chin-Brandt sent Safdar to Rikers Island to await a sentencing hearing on Aug. 30, at which time prosecutors said he will receive a sentence of six months in jail and five years of probation.
