Uber driver dies after being battered with a hockey stick

* RANDOLPH TOLK, 68, DIED AFTER ALTERCATION WITH NEW YORK PEDESTRIAN ON SATURDAY * POLICE SAY KOHJI KOSUGI, 39, ATTACKED HIM WITH A HOCKEY STICK AT A CROSSWALK * TOLK CONTINUED DRIVING FOR

SEVERAL BLOCKS AND STRUCK A MEDIAN BEFORE DYING * KOSUGI FLED BUT WAS ARRESTED HOURS LATER AND CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 01:33 EDT, 13 November

2017 | Updated: 04:57 EDT, 13 November 2017 An Uber driver has died after being attacked by a pedestrian with a hockey stick, police say. Randolph Tolk, 68, died early Sunday after the

confrontation in New York's Chealsea neighborhood, where police say 39-year-old pedestrian Kohji Kosugi attacked him with a hockey stick. Tolk was driving south late Saturday night when

he stopped at an intersection near Chelsea Piers, which contains an ice skating rink. Police say that Kosugi approached Tolk's Toyota Camry on foot and began banging on his hood with a

hockey stick. Tolk got out of his car and confronted Kosugi, who then knocked the grandfather of three down with the hockey stick and continued to strike him while he was down, according to

police. The driver manged to get back in his car, and continued south for about half a mile, until his car struck the center median. A witness to the attack also saw the crash and

immediately called 911.  Paramedics rushed Tolk to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12.40am Sunday. It's unclear whether Tolk died from injuries sustained in the crash or in

the hockey stick attack. Uber said he was off-duty at the time of the attack. 'The attacker is a coward and should be in jail, beating and elderly man with a hockey stick is

unforgivable,' NY Federation of Taxi Drivers spokesperson Fernando Mateo told Pix11.  'We don’t know the cause of death but we are sure it is related to the blow that knocked him

to the ground.' Kosugi fled the scene on foot into Chelsea, police say, but was arrested around 2.40pm on Sunday. Tolk was born in Brooklyn and previously worked in the garment

industry, inspecting women’s sweaters before they were shipped to retailers like Walmart and Target, his son told the New York Times. He had borrowed a car to work for Uber, a job he hated

but which allowed him to remain in New York, a city he loved, the son said. Kosugi claims on LinkedIn to be a doctor, but is not licensed to practice medicine in the state of New York. He

was charged with manslaughter in the incident. As he was hauled out of the 10th Precinct in handcuffs, with a hooded jacket pulled low over his face, Kosugi did not respond to shouted

questions from reporters.  New YorkUBER