The woman arrested early this week after allegedly running down a man sitting in a walker with her car outside a Queens deli, killing him, was indicted Thursday before a grand jury on murder charges, prosecutors announced.
Kiani Phoenix, 26, was arrested on Monday for charges she allegedly ran over a 59-year-old bystander following a brawl she got into with another woman at the Rohan Deli on Beach 20th Street in Far Rockaway before 7 a.m. last Saturday.
“The blatant disregard for human life allegedly displayed by the defendant is incomprehensible. An entire neighborhood continues to mourn the senseless loss of a community member because of these criminal actions," District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement Friday. Prosecutors alleged Phoenix fled in her vehicle after striking the bystander, but not before hitting a second pedestrian in a wild escalation of the earlier fight -- all of which was caught on camera.
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