A speeding hit-and-run driver who critically injured an 11-year-old Brooklyn boy riding a scooter in October ditched his car and fled to Qatar — but was finally arrested when he returned to the U.S., cops said Thursday.
Members of the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad got an arrest warrant for Tehron Sheraliev after linking him to the October crash in Gravesend. Investigators estimate he was going more than 50 mph, double the speed limit.
When they had heard Sheraliev, 24, had returned to the U.S., they took him into custody on Wednesday, charging him with leaving the scene of an accident, vehicular assault, reckless driving, and reckless endangerment.
Sheraliev, a native of Uzbekistan, dumped his mangled Acura four blocks away from the crash and hopped the next flight out to Qatar in an attempt to travel back to his homeland, according to cops.
The suspect said nothing as he was escorted by cops out of the 61st Precinct stationhouse Thursday morning to appear in court. He was wearing a cream-colored hoodie with “Essentials – Fear of God” emblazoned across the front.
Sheraliev was heading north on Ocean Parkway in a black Acura about 6 p.m. October 13 when zipped around two cars to beat the light at Avenue V and allegedly slammed into the boy riding an electric stand-up scooter.
When cops found the vehicle, its windshield was shattered and the front of its hood on the passenger side was damaged.
After making it to Qatar, Sheraliev traveled to Russia, but it wasn’t clear if he ever made it back to Uzbekitan.
While he was on the run overseas, he hired an attorney to broker a surrender with the NYPD. But when he returned to the U.S. in March, he reneged on his surrender agreement and stopped talking to his lawyer, who told police he didn’t know where Sheraliev was.
Cops ultimately tracked him down at a relative’s home, cops said.
The crash sent the child flying 50 feet in the air, cops said.
“When he hit him there was a noise,” one neighbor said at the time. “The boy was facedown in the street. All the cars stopped and blocked the traffic. They stood around him maybe five minutes. They didn’t touch him. The ambulance came fast.”
The child, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, suffered critical injuries about the head and body and was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center.
He broke both his arms and legs in the crash, police sources said. His teeth were also mashed back into his gums upon impact. His injuries were so severe doctors had to remove the child’s spleen.
Over the next seven months, the child was transferred from the hospital to a rehab facility and remains on the mend, police sources said.
A man hit by flying debris was taken to Maimonides Medical Center with minor injuries, cops said.
Sheraliev’s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Thursday.