Queens Man Killed Jumping From Girlfriend's Car In Fight: NYPD

LITTLE NECK, QUEENS -- A Queens man is dead and his girlfriend behind bars after a drunken argument between the two prompted him to jump from her car on their way home from a night out, police said.

Savittrie Beria-Lackhan, 34, was driving herself and her 30-year-old boyfriend Arif Hoosein home from a bar on Saturday when the two began bickering. The heated argument prompted Hoosein to jump from his girlfriend's 2015 Mercedes Benz on Grand Central Parkway, prosecutors said.

"A verbal dispute quickly turned into a deadly scene of horror when the defendant decided to get behind the wheel after drinking and then became engaged in a verbal dispute with her boyfriend," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Hoosein was hit by a black Nissan Sentra at around 3:45 a.m., according to cops who found the Glen Oaks man lying on the roadway near Commonwealth Boulevard with severe head and body trauma. He was rushed to Long Island Jewish Hospital, but doctors couldn't save him.

The Nissan Sentra's 39-year-old driver remained in the scene and was not injured during the crash, police said.

Beria-Lackhan was arrested at the scene and charged with drunk driving after she allegedly smelled of alcohol and slurred her words while speaking to cops through bloodshot eyes after the crash. A breathalyzer test later measured her blood alcohol content at .209 - nearly three times the legal limit - prosecutors said.

"The defendant should never have been driving in that alleged condition," Brown said.

The South Ozone Park woman told officers she and her boyfriend had been driving home from Bob's Bar, where she claimed she only had one Hennessy and ginger ale drink hours earlier, according to the charges.

Beria-Lackhan was arraigned on Saturday morning in Queens Criminal Court and ordered held on a $20,000 bond. She will return to court on March 23.

If convicted, she faces up to four years behind bars.

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