Richard Rojas
This is him after the deed. Lovely soul.
Here is the raging man who cops said barreled along nearly four blocks of Times Square sidewalk, leaving a 18-year-old woman dead and 22 others injured.
“He was driving like a madman and screaming,” said eyewitness Michael Rickerby, a tourist from Tennessee.
“It looked like he was trying to hit people,” Rickerby, 24, told The Post. “He had the angriest, craziest face and he was literally going after people.”
Police say two-time drunk-driving convict Richard Rojas tried to flee once his maroon Honda crashed against a stanchion at Broadway and West 45th Street.
Rojas “got out of his car and started trying to punch people and tackle people,” Rickerby said.
But nearby law enforcement — including a parole officer, a traffic agent and a patrol cop who happened to be at the scene — threw him against a wall and pinned his arms behind his back, as recorded in these dramatic snaps.
Meanwhile, screaming pedestrians rushed away from the carnage. A terrified mother grabbed her two young children after the three of them found themselves between Rojas and his abandoned car, which was about to burst into flames.
She grabbed her little girl with one hand and carried a younger boy in her other arm — the boy keeping careful hold of his toy airplane.