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Bronx driver runs down man on sidewalk after liquor store feud

An out-of-control driver in The Bronx — incensed after an argument with a liquor-store clerk — plowed into a man, fatally injuring the dad as his wife sobbed at his side.

Derek Callender, 32, died early Saturday after the driver’s 1988 Toyota Sienna minivan mounted the sidewalk after peeling away from the Got Liquor store on East 233rd Street in Wakefield.

Police said Henry Lawrence, 22, went into the store just after midnight Saturday to buy booze but was turned down by the clerk after he failed to show ID, cops said.

Lawrence then pulled out a knife before another man, possibly a store employee, chased him out of the shop with a baseball bat, cops said.

Furious, Lawrence then got in his van and sped off before he and some buddies circled the block at least twice before he tore down the sidewalk past the liquor store and struck Callender in front of his horrified family.

“I saw him lying on his back,” said neighbor Gilberto Rivera. “His wife knelt over him and tried to comfort him. She screamed, ‘Oh my God, my husband, my husband!’ ”

After mowing down Callender, the driver and the others in the car got out and fled on foot, before police caught up with Lawrence and charged him murder.