Motorcyclist killed in Brooklyn Belt Parkway hit-run crash told worried family he gave up riding

The family of a motorcyclist killed in a hit-and-run crash on Brooklyn Belt Parkway with a stolen Mercedes had begged him to get rid of the bike — but he still drove it and parked it in a garage so they wouldn’t know, heartbroken relatives said Tuesday.

Besim Muminovic, 28, told his siblings he abandoned the Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle, only to be thrown from it Sunday night after colliding with a Mercedes just off Shore Parkway in Sheepshead Bay in a crash that also killed the passenger of the stolen car, cops said.

Muminovic was entering the parkway from the service road when he was struck by the driver of the Mercedes, who was leaving the parkway at the Ocean Parkway exit. The Mercedes overturned in the accident.

“We fought with him when he got the bike back,” Muminovic’s older sister, Bisera Muminovic, 45, told the Daily News.

“Me, my brother, my sister were saying: ‘No, we’re not giving you the keys to suicide. You have to get rid of this bike’… He told us he got rid of it but we didn’t know he still had the bike. He parked it in a garage.”

Besim, an assistant manager at a Long Island car dealership, had spent the evening watching a football game at a friend’s house before telling his friends he was leaving because he was tired, his sister said.

He never returned home.

“He was just the sweetest, kindest soul,” the sister said. “Everyone loved him. There was no one who didn’t fall in love with him. He had a contagious smile. He was sensitive and he had such a big heart.”

Cops said the driver of the Mercedes, who was in the center lane of Belt Parkway, attempted to exit the highway, hitting the motorcyclist, forcing him into a chain-link fence around 11:30 p.m. Sunday.

The driver of the Mercedes then veered onto the right-hand grassy shoulder and hit a tree. The impact sent the luxury car flying as it flipped and landed on its roof, the car’s airbags deploying.

The motorcycle and Mercedes crashed into several parked, unoccupied cars after colliding.

Medics transported Besim and the passenger in the Mercedes to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, where both men died.

The driver of the Mercedes miraculously survived the crazy accident and escaped. He has not been arrested and police are working to determine his identity and that of his deceased passenger.

The car was reported stolen in East Brunswick, New Jersey, the day of the crash, police said.

“He walked into his garage and two guys came with a gun, robbed him and took the car,” the 22-year-old Mercedes owner’s uncle told The News. “They took his phone and everything. They’re maniacs.”

Law enforcement sources tell News 12 Brooklyn that a gun fell out of the Mercedes when crews turned over the wrecked vehicle.

“Why did you leave two people dead and run away? » said Besim’s sister. “Why would you do that? You don’t believe in God? You don’t believe in karma? Something?”

“Even if they don’t catch it physically, I believe in karma,” she added. “One way or another, you know, some twist of fate is going to catch him. I hope they catch him and we have some peace. It’s such a coward to kill someone and walk away like nothing happened.”

Muminovic was an adult mama’s boy who lived upstairs from his mother in Astoria, Queens.

“He loved my mother more than anyone,” Bisera said. “He even had his birthday tattooed on his chest in Roman numerals… He told my mother, ‘Mom, when you die, I will bury you in the garden so I can see you every day.'”

The family never imagined that Besim would die first.

“She woke up this morning and before she even opened her eyes, she started crying,” Besim said of her mother. “She woke up crying because, she said, ‘I’m used to him going up the stairs. When he was going up, you could hear him. I don’t hear anything. I don’t hear any footsteps.'”

Muminovic’s girlfriend, whose name is Julie, 26, said he bought the motorbike only so he wouldn’t have to disturb his mother by using her car.

“He didn’t even intend to keep the bike,” she said. “He didn’t have a car, so he thought it was convenient at the time, but he told me he was getting rid of it.”

She knew that Besim still owned the motorcycle and kept its secret.

“I was so close to saying it, but he would have been so mad at me,” the girlfriend said. “I know he was afraid of the bike himself. He never did anything crazy with the bike. I know he didn’t swerve between lanes. He always told me we needed our helmets. He had a helmet, I had one.”

She said he was planning to buy another car since he just got a promotion at the dealership.

His family described him as a macho man who loved playing football and lifting weights. Relatives said he held a New York state powerlifting deadlift record at 733 pounds.

Despite his strength and physique, Besim was adorable, his girlfriend said. The couple planned to get married next summer.

“He impacted everyone’s lives,” she said. “He really did it. He motivated everyone.”

With Thomas Tracy and Colin Mixson