A pedophile who abducted and molested a nine-year-old girl from a supermarket has been killed in a car crash while fleeing police.
Wayne Noel, 64, died at New York Presbyterian-Queens on Friday after blasting through a stop sign when police tried to pull him over about 12.30pm.
He was the subject of an 18-hour manhunt after the girl was snatched from a Key Foods store in Queens Village about 7.20pm on Thursday, police confirmed.
The girl was there with her grandmother, who left her alone for a few minutes to go to the bathroom – which was all the time Noel needed to strike.
Noel walked up to her and demanded ‘get in front of me’, then grabbed her by the hair and dragged her out of the supermarket and pushed her into his car.
He drove the grey Honda about seven blocks where he sexually assaulted her until a passing Good Samaritan tried to stop him.
Before the girl could be rescued, Noel drove away back to the Key Foods, where he sexually assaulted her a second time, police said.