Pickup truck driver charged with attempted murder in road rage-fueled NYC stabbing: cops

Metro

By Joe Marino, Amanda Woods and Steven Vago

A Big Apple pickup truck driver was charged with attempted murder in Tuesday night’s road rage-fueled stabbing that began in Queens and ended on the Upper East Side, authorities said.

Antal Lakatos, 28, behind the wheel of a Mercedes sedan, intentionally struck 38-year-old Shaker Ahmad’s pickup on the Queensboro Bridge around 6:50 p.m. cops said. 

After the vehicles stopped, Lakatos exited his car and opened his trunk – at which point Ahmad sped off, police sources said. 

But Lakatos gave chase, catching up to the Ahmad at East 62nd Street and Lexington Avenue, this time rear-ending the pickup and causing it to careen into a light pole, cops and sources said.

Patrol officers from the 19th Precinct were eating at a Smashburger restaurant across the street when they heard the sound of the crash and ran over, sources said. 

They saw Ahmad exit his truck and run over to the victim’s Mercedes, where he stabbed him multiple times as he sat in the driver’s seat, according to the sources. 

The wounded Lakatos fell out of his car – and officers came to his aid while another cop handcuffed Ahmad, the sources said. 

Ahmad was charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said. 

Lakatos was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center where he was listed in stable condition. He was charged with attempted assault, police said. 

Ahmad served 18 months behind bars between Feb. 2016 and Aug. 2018 in connection to a second-degree assault conviction, State Corrections records show. 

Lakatos was busted in June of 2019 for driving with a suspended license, and again about two months ago for grand larceny auto in Queens, police said.