Man police say drove in deadly Ocean Parkway crash arrested at JFK before Uzbekistan flight

Police say a man wanted in a deadly Midwood, Brooklyn, crash was trying to leave the country when officers stopped him at JFK Airport on Tuesday. His destination was Uzbekistan. According to the NYPD, the 22-year-old was driving in the Oct. 5 chain-reaction collision that killed a 62-year-old man.

Police identified him as Sobirjon Abdurazakov. According to police, the charges against him include manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, along with assault, reckless endangerment, speeding and leaving the scene of a crash that caused a death. He was waiting to be arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court, and it was not immediately clear whether he had a lawyer.

How the Ocean Parkway crash happened

Police said the collision happened just after midnight at the corner of Ocean Parkway and Avenue S. According to police, Abdurazakov was driving an Audi A5 that hit a Toyota Camry from behind. The impact sent the Camry into a Toyota RAV4 stopped in front of it, and the Camry then slammed into a tree.

Yaya Dia, 62, who was driving the Camry, died. A 39-year-old passenger in his car was hospitalized with injuries, while the driver of the RAV4 received treatment at the scene. According to police, the person driving the Audi ran away.

Investigators said the Audi was traveling far faster than the 25 mph limit on that part of Ocean Parkway when the chain reaction began.

Arrest at JFK Airport

Officers caught up with Abdurazakov at the airport on Tuesday before he got on the plane. Officials said Uzbekistan is his home country. From JFK, police brought him back to Brooklyn, to the 61st Precinct, a short distance from the Ocean Parkway and Avenue S crash site.

Police said Dia lived in Flatbush. He was originally from Mauritania and had once lived in Senegal.