A killer cabby didn’t utter a word as he viciously beat a would-be passenger with a baseball bat and then fatally stabbed the man’s pal on a Queens street, the survivor of the horrific attack told The Post yesterday.
“He didn’t say anything. He just got out of the car and started fighting,” victim Carlos Perez said from his bed at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where he is recovering from a broken arm and stab wounds received in the predawn Saturday ambush in Woodside.
Cops yesterday were still hunting the driver who killed Perez’s longtime pal, deejay Isaac Martinez, 26, before speeding off, leaving the men bleeding on Roosevelt Avenue.
Perez and Martinez were both boozed up and had just left their local bar, El Perlita, bought more beer at a bodega and were making their way home around 5 a.m. when the bloody scene unfolded, according to law-enforcement sources and witnesses.
“I said, ‘Let’s go to my house.’ My friend wanted to get beer at the store. I told him I would get a cab,” Perez, 33, recounted.
Perez said a “brown” livery cab first drove by him as he hailed him from the curb — and then stopped and backed up.
The driver, whom Perez described as darker-skinned and perhaps Mexican or Asian, got out.
Police sources have said a fight broke out after the cabby refused a ride to the drunken pals and the trio exchanged words.
Perez said he didn’t remember any argument — or the driver saying a word as he beat them mercilessly.
“He [just] came out of the car with a bat and hit me,” Perez said. “He broke my arm and threw the bat.
“I grabbed the bat and chased him, but he was very fast.”
Witnesses told police that the raging driver also whipped out a knife and slashed Perez.
Meanwhile, Martinez had already gotten into the cab, Perez said.
“I don’t know what happened in the car. I pounded on the car with the bat. First the side and then the back.” Perez said.
“I could see my friend on the floor bleeding.”
According to witnesses, Martinez then got out of the cab and struggled to keep the cabby from driving off — and that’s when the driver plunged the knife into his chest.
A heartbroken Perez said of Martinez, “He has a little boy. This is no good for his family.”
“I hope they find the man’’ who killed him, said Perez, who works as a busboy and sends money home to his own young son in Mexico City.
“He’s a very bad man.”
Perez was stabbed in his right side, by the rib cage, and has a 4-inch cut on his biceps. It is still unclear whether the at-large driver was a licensed livery cabby.
“We can’t assume because you are driving a Lincoln cab that you’re a livery cabdriver. That’s not the case,” said Fernando Mateo, a livery-driver advocate.