STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities allege that a 54-year-old man from Staten Island was the driver of a pickup truck that fatally struck a 36-year-old woman on a bicycle in a hit-and-run crash eight months ago in Queens.
Bekim Fiseku of Garfield Avenue in Fort Wadsworth was among the individuals suspected of attempted burglary who were fleeing from police when the fatal crash occurred on Oct. 22 at about 11 p.m. at 34th Avenue and 37th Street in Astoria, according to statements by Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.
Two police officers were injured in the episode, when the pickup truck struck two NYPD vehicles, according to the police statement…