A passenger in a livery vehicle died in an apparent suicide when he jumped out of an open window during a ride on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, cops and sources said.
Rami Elsuwi, 43, was in the backseat of a Hyundai Santa Fe heading east on the parkway when he rolled down his window and shockingly climbed out of it near the 92nd Street Pedestrian Bridge around 9 p.m., the NYPD said Sunday.
He hit his head on a guardrail and died at the scene after suffering severe head trauma, police said.
It’s unclear why Elsuwi, of Brooklyn, fled from the moving car, but it appears to be intentional, sources said.
The driver, 69, remained at the scene. No criminality is suspected, according to sources.
Sources said Elsuwi knew the driver, and commonly hired him to help him travel to different tasks, including properties he was considering buying.
He was on his way to a property when the fatal incident occurred, sources said.
Elsuwi’s death comes more than a year after an Uber passenger, a 32-year-old Oyster Bay woman, apparently jumped from a moving vehicle and was fatally hit by another vehicle on the Long Island Expressway.
Additional reporting by Amanda Woods.
