Accused Drunk Driver Stabs Witness While Free On Bail: Report

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — The drunk Bushwick drunk driver who killed a pedestrian when he slammed his car into a crowd of people has been arrested again, this time for stabbing a witness to his crime in the neck, according to court records and reports.

Naquan Ricks, 23, faces attempted murder charges after he attacked Sharief Davis, 21, in an apartment building on Bushwick Avenue near Schaefer Street at about 9:45 p.m. May 4, according to court records and a Daily News report.

The accused drunk driver, who was out on bail, feared Davis — Ricks’ passenger the September morning when he drove his black 2007 Infiniti onto a Bushwick sidewalk — would testify against him in court, according to a Daily News law enforcement source.

Davis survived but suffered a lacerated carotid artery after Ricks stabbed him in the neck with a knife, according to the criminal complaint.

Ricks was arrested five days later, charged with attempted murder and assault charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court, and held on a $499,000 bail, court records show.

The Brooklyn man also faces murder charges for driving drunk, crashing into a crowd of people and trying to flee the scene with one of his victims clinging to the hood of his car in 2017, according to prosecutors.

Ricks allegedly hit the gas, flung the person from his car and sped away, only to slam into another car near Halsey Street and Bushwick Avenue and face capture by police, prosecutors said.

Ricks was arraigned on a 42-count indictment in March, but was released on a $10,000 bail, court records show.

Ricks told the Daily News he couldn't have stabbed Davis because he was too drunk to even remember his friend had been with him during the crash.

"How would I even know he was a witness?" Ricks said in a jailhouse interview. "All I remember is that they pulled me out of the car and threw me on the ground.”

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