[UPDATE BELOW] "From shoplifting to murder. How stupid is that?" said one witness of a fatal collision between a getaway car and woman carrying groceries across West 90th Street. Three thieves had just taken packages of allergy medication from an Upper West Side drug store and were being followed by police, when they made a U-turn straight into the 39-year-old victim. Witnesses told the press that the sound of the crash was deafening, and that food items and milk covered the hood of the car. more ›

Yesterday, a man—who fled after being seen beating a woman—was killed when his apparent getaway car crashed into a private garbage truck. Now it turns out the man, Mustafa Abdul-Qawiyy, was a pimp, at least according to the Daily News. Abdul-Qawiyy and Fabienne Francois-Couch, previously charged with prostitution, were "attacking the woman with a bat" (a witness said the victim was bleeding and screaming "stop, stop") before the police spotted them at Broadway and West 52nd Street in Midtown. The pair fled, with Francois-Couch driving and reportedly speeding through a red light into the garbage truck. Abdul-Qawiyy died and Francois-Couch suffered critical injuries; the beating victim had a broken arm. The NY Times adds, "The roof of the car had been sheared off by emergency workers. In the back seat was a fur coat, and in the street was blood mixed with car fluid, nail polish, lip gloss, baby booties, a toy piano, condoms and a collection of music on compact disc by Andrew Lloyd Webber." more ›