To his roommate and neighbors, 25-year-old Brooklyn man Thomas Abreu was the ideal acquaintance — “quiet,” “unaggressive” and ”normal.”
Then on Saturday he hopped on his moped, drove two blocks away from his home and allegedly initiated a half-hour of horror that spanned two boroughs, left three wounded and claimed the life of 87-year-old Queens man Hamod Ali Saeidi.
“I never thought he would do something like that,” Rueben Vargas, Abreu’s 55-year-old roommate, told the Daily News on Sunday. “He seemed like a good boy.”
Abreu, 25, was slapped with murder and attempted murder charges at the 107th Precinct stationhouse in Pomonok, Queens, police said Sunday.
Police nabbed Abreu on Sutphin Blvd. near 94th Ave. around 1 p.m. Saturday, shortly after he ditched the moped that carried him from shooting to shooting during the spree that began in Brooklyn and ended in Queens, cops said.
Abreu’s violent rampage reportedly started at 11:10 a.m., when the gunman allegedly shot a 21-year-old man in the shoulder from his scooter on Arlington Ave. and Ashford St. — two blocks away from the Elton St. duplex he shared with Vargas in Cypress Hills — according to police.
Surveillance footage obtained by the Daily News shows the victim crossing the street when the moped-riding gunman zips past him and appears to open fire, sending him sprawling to the ground in the crosswalk.
The gunman next surfaced on Jamaica Ave., where he shot 87-year-old Hamod Ali Saeidi in the back during one of his daily walks near 109th St. in Richmond Hill at 11:27 a.m., according to law enforcement.
Another security feed obtained by The News shows Saeidi stumbling in confused agony as blood leaks from wounds to his chest and back, before he collapses to the pavement.
Medics rushed Saeidi to Jamaica Hospital, but he could not be saved, cops said.
After gunning down Saedi, Abreu allegedly opened fire on a group standing a block away on 108th St., but his bullets failed to hit their marks…
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