Police identify suspected thief wanted in hit-and-run death of cyclist in NYC

Police have identified the wanted suspected thief crush a female cyclist with his truck while fleeing from police in Queens last month.

Bekim Ficecu, 53, is wanted in the Astoria murder of 36-year-old Amanda Servedio, who was run over just two blocks from her home around 11 p.m. on Oct. 22, the NYPD said Wednesday.

Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows a speeding Dodge Ram hit a passing bicyclist at the intersection of 34th Avenue and 37th Street — throwing Cervedo from his passenger seat into a parked BMW, police said.

He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he died from his injuries.

Officials and sources said police were responding to a report of a theft 10 minutes earlier at 39th Avenue and Crescent Street in Dutch Kills — a little more than a mile away — when they spotted a pickup with a covered rear license plate.

The officers began pursuing the truck, believing the three occupants of the truck to be theft suspects, but the driver refused to stop and sped off.

Police immediately called off the search for Servedio after the fatal accident, who suffered head and body injuries.

The truck fled the scene and was later found abandoned near Newtown Road and 47th Street.

The next morning his grief-stricken mother was seen crying outside her apartment building and friends and neighbors consoled her.

Servedio, an Arkansas native who worked as a senior tax accountant at a Midtown firm, had been living alone in Astoria for some time, according to her neighbors.

She tracked her bike rides on the exercise app Strava – which revealed she regularly went on 26-mile long treks.

According to her neighbor Phillips, Servedio “was a real cyclist”.

“You regularly see him coming and going with his bicycle on his shoulder. He did a lot of organized rides,” the neighbor told The Post last month.

“He rode a lot. And she rode with organized groups and you’d regularly see her walking up the stairs (on the bike) over her shoulder after long organized rides.