The incident happened just after 11 p.m. Sunday at 110th Street and 71st Avenue in Forest Hills. Aron was often called “Eric” by his clients, and the jeweler to the stars was said to have been rushed to a local medical center with critical trauma to the head.
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He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, and died the next day.
Another vehicle, possibly a Dodge Magnum, stopped, its driver apparently mad he had to wait. He was on the phone, a auto was flying down the street, and he got into a verbal back-and-forth with the driver, who backed up and hit him.
A Queens jeweler to the stars was killed by a hit-and-run driver after the two got into a fight Sunday night in Forest Hills, police said.
“He said, ‘Here is not highway, ‘” the uncle Boris Aranbayev shared, referring to his nephew, the victim, in the hit-and-run.
Aranbayev was co-owner of Rafaello & Co., and he had many celebrity clients, including Floyd Mayweather, Jay-Z, Khloe Kardashian and Diddy, according to the Daily Mail.
Those who knew him say that the argument that led to his death may have started over a parking spot.
According to published reports, Aron Aranbayev, whose family came to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in the 1980s, opened the store with his cousin and uncle in 2009.
“He was very intelligent, kind, very friendly, devoted to work and family”, said Aranbayev’s wife, who failed to give her name.
“We, as a family, want to put together a reward with the police for the capture and the arrest of this coward”, Jacobs said.
“His work was his life”, she added. Gabriel Jacobs, his cousin and business partner, posted an emotional farewell on the company’s Instagram page.
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“He made custom pieces (and) would go advertise at rap concerts and sporting events”, said a jeweler in the Diamond District who wished to not be named.
