WHEATLEY HEIGHTS, N.Y. (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- A homeless man carjacked a woman at gunpoint in a Suffolk County driveway Tuesday night before ramming the stolen vehicle into a police cruiser and fleeing on foot down LIRR tracks, police said Wednesday.
The chaos started in Wheatley Heights at 11 p.m., when the carjacker targeted a woman as she pulled a Hyundai Tuscan into a driveway on Main Avenue, near Sunset Avenue.
The 21-year-old thief pointed a handgun at the woman, told her to get out of the Hyundai and then drove away in it, according to Suffolk County police.
Police in a marked patrol car located the Hyundai at Straight Path and Burr’s Lane in Wyandanch about 10 minutes later.
The officers activated their lights and followed the carjacker, but when they reached North 23rd Street and Merritt Avenue, he rammed the stolen vehicle into the patrol car, police said.
The joyrider drove three more blocks before getting out of the vehicle and running onto nearby LIRR tracks.
The officers gave chase on foot and nabbed him shortly after 11:30 p.m.
The suspect, identified as Kwaisi McCorvey, was charged with a long list of crimes, including robbery, criminal use of a firearm, grand larceny, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, reckless driving and unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle.
He was held overnight by police and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
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