Yesterday, a man—who fled after being seen beating a woman—was killed when his apparent getaway car crashed into a private garbage truck. Now it turns out the man, Mustafa Abdul-Qawiyy, was a pimp, at least according to the Daily News. Abdul-Qawiyy and Fabienne Francois-Couch, previously charged with prostitution, were "attacking the woman with a bat" (a witness said the victim was bleeding and screaming "stop, stop") before the police spotted them at Broadway and West 52nd Street in Midtown. The pair fled, with Francois-Couch driving and reportedly speeding through a red light into the garbage truck. Abdul-Qawiyy died and Francois-Couch suffered critical injuries; the beating victim had a broken arm. The NY Times adds, "The roof of the car had been sheared off by emergency workers. In the back seat was a fur coat, and in the street was blood mixed with car fluid, nail polish, lip gloss, baby booties, a toy piano, condoms and a collection of music on compact disc by Andrew Lloyd Webber."
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