NYC driver who dragged and killed doting dad still at large

A Queens man who was dragged to death from a car during a nighttime fight with the woman at the wheel was remembered as a devoted dad who wore matching costumes with his young daughter at Halloween.

Naim Kellman’s Facebook feeds are filled with pictures of him and his 7-year-old girl. But their Halloween tradition came to a tragic end earlier this month when Kellman was dragged along a street in Rockaway Beach during a loud argument with a motorist, according to police and witnesses.

Witnesses said Kellman, 27, reached into the gray 2018 Honda Accord as they argued on Oct. 17, but the driver hit the gas and sped off with Kellman’s arm still in the window. Cops said the car dragged him two blocks along Rockaway Beach Blvd. before swerving into a parked vehicle at Beach 87th St. at around 9 p.m.

At that point the victim fell to the pavement and the driver sped off. EMS rushed Kellman to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

There have been no arrests.

Jonathan Rivera said he knew Kellman from the neighborhood.

“You could hear the commotion,” Rivera said. ”It escalated to where it was about to get physical. He reached into the car and she took off. She hit another car. He’s like hanging out of the car.”

Alex Burlak, who owns a pharmacy across the street from where the car finally stopped, said he is haunted by Kellman’s death.

“His body was between the cars,” Burlak said.

But Burlak said that it wasn’t so much the argument or the way the driver sped off with Kellman still holding on that left him so uneasy.

“There was someone recording in advance,” Burlak said. “He was involved.”

Burlak said that if the man recording the incident, or someone else had intervened, the tragedy could have been prevented.

Instead, Burlak has to walk past the photos, candles and handwritten notes that line the curb where Kellman died.

Friends and neighbors said Kellman lived in the Hammel Houses with his girlfriend, their 7-year-old daughter and his girlfriend’s mother.

Residents said he doted on the girl, and couldn’t believe how fast she was growing.

“Every Halloween, he and his daughter would be wearing matching costumes,” said a neighbor named Sheena. “He was very involved.”

Another neighbor remembered seeing Kellman regularly picking up his daughter from the bus stop and holding her hand all the way home.

Sharifa Davis said her son and Kellman were close friends. She’s horrified by his death.

“I watched this young man every day. He had potential,” Davis said. ”He’s like a son to me. He was a sweetheart. He did not deserve that. He did not deserve to be dragged in the pavement.”