SUV plows into eatery, killing boy

NEW YORK — A desperate dad told a driver who had just backed into a fast food restaurant, “Move forward — you’re on my kids!” as his son lay fatally injured, according to court documents released Friday.

Driver Kwasi Oduro, 73, did move forward, driving away and continuing even as a witness told him he’d injured the children, police said in a court complaint. Oduro was arraigned Friday night on charges of leaving the scene of the Bronx accident that killed 7-year-old Ethan Villavicencio and injured his sister and father as they went for ice cream.

Oduro’s Mercedes SUV plowed in reverse into a fried chicken restaurant around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, shattering its windows and hitting Ethan and his relatives, the complaint said.

Witnesses described patrons scrambling, running and wondering what had happened as the boy lay covered in glass and his little sister cried for their mother, who was at a doctor’s appointment.

“It was a horrible moment, and I’ll remember it forever,” restaurant owner Shah Mohammad told WCBS-TV.

Ethan suffered a collapsed lung and died at a hospital. His father, Manny Figueroa, and 5-year-old sister, Maya Figueroa, were released after being treated for cuts and bruises.

Police, rescue workers, restaurant staffers and bystanders moved a table that had pinned Maya to the floor, witness Sheila Clark said.

After the 34-year-old father implored Oduro to move, Oduro drove off, until a traffic agent pulled in front of his car to stop him a couple of blocks away, the complaint said.