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A 16-year-old girl was mowed down on a Queens sidewalk by a drunk maniac in an SUV Saturday morning, just moments after the driver made lewd comments to the teen and got into a fight with her boyfriend and mother, police and sources said. 

Jhoanny Gomez-Alvarez of Manhattan was fatally struck by a 2009 Chevy Suburban driven by a 38-year-old man following the heated altercation at Roosevelt Avenue and Benham Street in Elmhurst just after 4 a.m., cops said. 

The driver was highly intoxicated and had been sitting on the steps outside a neighborhood bar when the teen walked out with her boyfriend, mother and her mother’s friend, sources said.

The scuffle broke out after the driver hurled sexually-charged comments at the teen, police sources said.

After getting away, he jumped into his vehicle and drove up on the sidewalk, pinning the girl against a pillar, the sources said.  

The maniac also plowed into the girl’s 32-year-old mother before hitting a parked vehicle while trying to drive off, cops said.

The suspect, who wasn’t immediately identified, was taken into custody, cops said.

Murder charges against him were pending.

The teen was declared dead at the scene and the injured victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition.

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