A dirtbag stole a truck then fatally ran over its owner in Greenwood Heights on Monday morning, police said.
The 63-year-old victim — Phillip Dellegrazia of Bensonhurst — was loading and unloading goods between two vehicles in front of his store on 24th Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues some time before 9 am, when the lout jumped in one of his pickup trucks and sped off, police said.
Dellegrazia got in a sports utility vehicle and chased after the thief, and the two stopped on Fourth Avenue between 22nd and 23rd streets, where they got into a physical fight, cops said.
Dellegrazia ended up on the ground, and the carjacker then got back in the truck, ran over him, and motored off — later abandoning the vehicle on 22nd Street between Fifth and Fourth avenues then fleeing on foot, authorities said.
Medics pronounced the truck owner dead at the scene, police said.
