{"id":330647,"date":"2026-08-27T00:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330647\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:28:53","slug":"heartbroken-families-speak-of-devastating-loss-over-3-teens-killed-in-100-mph-cadillac-crash-on-bklyn-belt-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330647\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbroken families speak of devastating loss over 3 teens killed in 100 mph Cadillac crash on Bklyn Belt Parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"

The devastated families of the three teens killed in a 100 mph crash on the Belt Parkway<\/a> in Brooklyn shared their pain over their loved ones\u2019 loss Wednesday, just hours after the teens\u2019 lives ended together in the speeding Cadillac Escalade.<\/p>\n

The three victims \u2014 Abdul Rehman, 16, Konstantin Gerantidi, 17, and driver Huzayfah Aziz Algahiem, 18 \u2014 died after the 2002 Cadillac Escalade they were riding in collided with a 2024 Honda HR-V near Exit 1 by 65th St. in Bay Ridge around 11:35 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.<\/p>\n

Investigators determined that the Escalade was going 100 mph when it crashed, a police source with knowledge of the case said. The speed limit on the Belt Parkway is 50 mph.<\/p>\n

\"AA mangled Cadillac Escalade and Honda HR-V are pictured in a police lot in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, after three teens were killed in a late-night crash on the Belt Parkway. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Rehman worked at an ice cream shop to support his elderly parents, relatives said. He\u00a0was looking forward to attending 11th grade at Rachel Carson High School in Coney Island, where Algahiem graduated in May. Algahiem wanted to study engineering at Brooklyn College, relatives said. Konstantin\u2019s family said that the teen\u2019s death has \u201cshaken everyone who knew him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AbdulAbdul Rehman (pictured) was killed in a late-night crash on the Belt Parkway near Exit 1 by 65th St. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Obtained by NYDN)<\/p>\n

Family members said Rehman had dreams of going to business school one day.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe worked in a H\u00e4agen-Dazs ice cream shop to help support our family,\u201d the teen\u2019s sister, 15-year-old Anaya Iqbal, told the Daily News. \u201cHe was our only brother. Now it\u2019s me and my older sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re broken,\u201d she said solemnly.<\/p>\n

Abdul told his family that he was going to meet friends before heading out earlier that day, according to a cousin.<\/p>\n

\"AA mangled Cadillac Escalade is pictured in a police lot in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, after three teens were killed in a late-night crash on the Belt Parkway. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just said that he was going out,\u201d Muhammad Usman, 25, said at Abdul\u2019s parents\u2019 home in Brighton Beach. \u201cHe said he would be back shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a really good boy,\u201d Usman added. \u201cHe was helping take care of his elderly parents. Our family is almost destroyed. He was the only boy of his father.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abdul was looking forward to attending 11th grade at Rachel Carson High School, relatives said. He also helped feed the homeless.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was really kind and loving,\u201d his sister said. \u201cHe was still trying to figure out whether he wanted to go to college. He wanted to be a businessman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abdul and his two friends died at NYU Langone Hospital\u2013Brooklyn<\/a>, cops said.<\/p>\n

Algahiem\u2019s uncle said his nephew and his friends went out to grab dinner at a Yemeni Cafe in Bay Ridge and were on their way home when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n

\"HuzayfahHuzayfah Aziz Algahiem (Obtained by NYDN)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible loss,\u201d said Amin Algahiem, 43. \u201cHe was a very kind, good boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cadillac driver had just graduated from Rachel Carson High School and was applying to Brooklyn College, where he wanted to study engineering, according to his uncle.<\/p>\n

The teen\u2019s family, including his parents, three brothers and two sisters, were in Egypt for a summer vacation when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur family, even those in Egypt, are all doing really bad,\u201d said the driver\u2019s uncle. \u201cThey wanted to take him with them, but he wanted to spend the summer in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Konstantin\u2019s death left his mother and sister \u201cfacing unimaginable heartbreak<\/a>\u00a0and the pain of saying goodbye far too soon,\u201d a GoFundMe posted by a family friend to pay for funeral expenses says. \u201cKostya was deeply loved, and this loss has shaken everyone who knew him and cared about his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KonstantinKonstantin Gerantidi (pictured) was killed in a late-night crash on the Belt Parkway near Exit 1 by 65th St. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (GoFundMe)<\/p>\n

The teen\u2019s family gathered to mourn at his mother\u2019s apartment in Brighton Beach, where a cousin told the Daily News, \u201cWe\u2019re barely holding up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only been 15 hours,\u201d said Konstantin\u2019s cousin, 31-year-old Serj Yu. \u201cHe was the last one we expected to go this way. He had big dreams. He was a beautiful boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

All three victims weren\u2019t wearing seatbelts and were ejected from the Cadillac when it overturned, cops said. Two other teens riding in the Cadillac were belted in and survived.<\/p>\n

The three victims lived near each other in Brighton Beach. One of the surviving teens told police they had been hanging out at a gas station and were preparing to go home when they crashed.<\/p>\n

Algahiem was speeding when he switched from the center to the right lane, cops said. He braked sharply due to a slower moving vehicle in front of him and was rear-ended by the Honda SUV behind him.<\/p>\n

\"HuzayfahHuzayfah Aziz Algahiem (pictured) was killed in a late-night crash on the Belt Parkway near Exit 1 by 65th St. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Obtained by NYDN)<\/p>\n

The out-of-control Cadillac then hit a guardrail, spun around and overturned, ejecting the three teens.<\/p>\n

The surviving teens, a 16-year-old boy who lives in Brighton Beach and an 18-year-old man who lives in Coney Island, survived and were treated at Maimonides Medical Center.<\/p>\n

The Honda became partially wedged under the Cadillac during the crash and also overturned, police said.<\/p>\n

\"AA mangled Cadillac Escalade is pictured in a police lot in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, after three teens were killed in a late-night crash on the Belt Parkway. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old woman driving the HR-V and her passenger, a 44-year-old woman, were taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in stable condition.<\/p>\n

No charges have been filed. Algahiem had a valid license, police said. He received driving summonses six times in the past, including in January for speeding and making an unsafe lane change on the Belt Parkway, police sources said.<\/p>\n

In August of last year, Algahiem got a summons for speeding and driving on the shoulder on Staten Island. He didn\u2019t answer that summons in court and had his license suspended, but it was eventually restored, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The devastated families of the three teens killed in a 100 mph crash on the Belt Parkway in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-330647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}