Make New York Post a Preferred Source The “crazy” driver shot dead by NYPD cops while ramming police cruisers on the Belt Parkway on Saturday had 25 prior busts and was wanted for assaulting his ex, law-enforcement sources said.
Omatoyo Neverson, 26, was still being sought for throwing his ex-girlfriend to the ground in Brooklyn on Nov. 2 when he tried to abduct her shortly before 7:30 p.m. Saturday, sparking the police pursuit that ended in the fatal shooting on the busy parkway, sources said.
He was also accused of unlawful imprisonment for allegedly refusing to let the woman leave her apartment during another confrontation in October 2024.
“He was crazy,” a former Brooklyn neighbor told The Post on Sunday. “He had a gun.
“He had his grandmother locked inside there with him,‘’ she said of a local home where Neverson previously lived. “He was a squatter.
“It was a horrible few years, like five years that he lived here,” she said. He rented out the downstairs even though he didn’t own the place. He’s a crazy guy.”
Sources said Neverson’s rap sheet involves at least 25 arrests, with 22 sealed and one voided.
On Saturday, police responded to a 911 call of a possible abduction after bystanders reported a woman screaming for help inside a white van.
Witnesses said the woman was able to break free, but when police responded to the scene, the van took off and led cops on a high-speed chase – with Neverson allegedly behind the wheel.
Cops set up a road block on the Belt Parkway near Exit 8, but police said Neverson rammed into several police cruisers and civilian vehicles to try to get away.
Dramatic video footage shows police desperately trying to smash the windows on the van as Neverson continues to ram the vehicles – even after cops Tased him, the sources said.
Police then opened fire as the van sped toward cops at the scene, with the crazed driver rushed to NYU Langone Brooklyn Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
An NYPD lieutenant and three police officers involved in the incident were placed on modified duty after the incident, which is being reviewed by the state attorney general’s office, as is routine in cases of police-involved shootings in the Empire State.
