Accused Upper East Side Road Rage Killer Indicted: DA

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A man accused of fatally running another man over with his car on East 60th Street last July was formally indicted on Wednesday, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Andre Mosby, 26, is accused of killing a Long Island man after a minor car accident quickly turned deadly.

The victim, Roberto Velez Alvarez, 54, was run over by Mosby after Alvarez pulled out a knife on Mosby and slashed two of his car's tires, according to prosecutors and court documents.

“Andre Mosby allegedly escalated a confrontation by using his vehicle as battering ram with such force that a man was killed," said District Attorney Alvin Bragg. "Vehicular violence takes a significant toll on our communities and families. Nothing can bring back the victim to his family and friends, but my Office pledges to provide appropriate accountability."

Police said the whole fracas started at about 4 p.m. on July 12 when a gray 2020 Chevy Silverado and a gray 2014 Volkswagen Jetta were driving on East 60th Street between Park and Lexington avenues.

Mosby first hit Alvarez's Silverado when he attempted to merge into another lane, prosecutors said, and the two drivers began arguing.

Police at the time described that initial car accident as a "love tap," according to the Daily News.

That's when Alvarez went to get a knife from his car and slashed the two rear ties of Mosby's Volkswagen, officials said. He then walked to the front of the car, prosecutors said, knife in hand.

Mosby, whose girlfriend and three young children were also in the car, according to a Daily News review of surveillance footage, then accelerated his car, sending Alvarez through the window of the Oxford Cafe on East 60th Street, according to police and prosecutors.

He was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornel Medical Center, according to officials.

A friend of the driver and his girlfriend told the Daily News outside the 19th Precinct house at the time of the incident that Mosby was just trying to protect his kids.

“It was in the heat of the moment,” Kamel Osbourne, 26, told the Daily News. "He had a knife; there were kids in the car.”

Mosby is charged with one count of felony second degree manslaughter.