A Queens hit-and-run driver wanted in the 2019 horror death of a 72-year-old woman was finally nabbed Thursday after nearly five years on the lam, according to police.
Naquan Young, 46, was picked up on a fugitive warrant in Pennsylvania and extradited back to New York City, officials confirmed to The Post.
Young had been sought in the gruesome killing of Gilda Lascano after his gray Lexus SUV blew through a red light around 1:15 a.m. in Ozone Park on Sept. 10, 2019, and smashed into a burgundy Honda CRV in which she was a passenger, cops said.
The impact sent the Honda flying into the facade of a flower shop and Lascano through the CRV’s windshield and under a nearby parked car, cops said.
She was declared dead at the scene, while the Honda driver, an unidentified 56-year-old woman, was hospitalized.
Young fled on foot, officials said.
He is charged with criminally negligent homicide, second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault and leaving the scene of an accident.
He was arraigned in Queens criminal court Friday and is being held without bail, court officials said.
Young had been indicted by a grand jury in abstentia in 2023 before he was finally arrested.
The circumstances of his arrest were not immediately clear.