Young BMW driver and passenger die after fiery Queens Belt Parkway wreck


The young driver and one of the passengers of an out-of-control BMW have died after a fiery weekend wreck on the Belt Parkway — and the brother of the young mom killed in the wreck says he has “questions” about what led to his sister’s fate.

No one in the doomed BMW was wearing a seat belt, according to police sources.

Noah Thompson, 24, and one of his four passengers, 22-year-old Jewel Perez, were initially listed in critical condition after Thompson slammed into a concrete divider while going east on the parkway toward the Cross Bay Blvd. exit in Howard Beach about 6 a.m. Saturday, according to police.

“Jewel was a loving, energetic mother who dreamed of entering the medical field so she could help others the way she always helped others,” her brother Khaseim Perez said.

After slamming into the divider, the BMW rocketed in the air and landed on the other side of the highway, where it struck two more vehicles, a Honda CR-V and a red Hyundai, going the opposite direction, cops said. Thompson and Perez both ended up dying at local hospitals, according to cops, friends and relatives.

Before he died, police were looking to get a warrant to test Thompson’s blood for alcohol, sources said.

Thompson’s three other passengers, a 21-year-old woman and two men, both 25, somehow suffered only minor injuries, while the CR-V and Hyundai drivers were hospitalized in stable condition.

“I have some questions. Just from the wreck, it looks like maybe alcohol or speeding related,” Perez’s older brother, Khasiem Perez, told the Daily News. “I am surprised that more people weren’t seriously hurt or injured.”

The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates a crash involving a white BMW (pictured) on the Belt Parkway in Queens on Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)

In an appeal on GoFundMe, Perez’s brother described the Upper East Side resident as the mother of two young children, ages 3 and 1, and called her death an “unimaginable loss.”

Perez and her two siblings grew up in New York City, though Khaseim moved to Virginia about nine years ago.

Jewel Perez.

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Jewel Perez was killed in a BMW crash on the Belt Parkway in Queens on Saturday. (GoFundMe)

“I spoke to her a month ago,” he said. “Last time I spoke to her, told me she wanted to be a nursing assistant. I’m a nurse, so I guess maybe she looked up to me and started [trying] to get into the nursing field. That’s what she wanted to do.”

In Thompson’s most recent Instagram post, he proudly posed with the shiny white BMW he later crashed. In another post he described himself as the type “to always beat da odds.”

Thompson’s friends posted words of grief on social media.

“it’s been a while since we last had a conversation but you literally just tried to check up on me. Like no matter how many years go by there was no love lost by you,” wrote one friend on Facebook. “Never think I would find out news about you like this. You was always the brightest, the jokester, uplifting people when they were down when you yourself handling s— on your own.”

The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates a crash involving a white BMW and a red Hyundai Tuscon (pictured) on the Belt Parkway in Queens on Saturday.

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The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates a crash involving a white BMW and a red Hyundai Tuscon (pictured) on the Belt Parkway in Queens on Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)

One of his neighbors in Jamaica, a 72-year-old woman, who didn’t give her name, said she learned about his death Monday morning. She treated him like a son when he was younger, she said.

“Noah was a sweet boy. He’s one of my babies,” the neighbor said. “He was a good kid.”



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