A minor traffic dispute turned deadly for an off-duty firefighter Sunday when he and another driver pulled off the road to sort it out and the raging motorist killed him, law-enforcement sources said. The fatal dust-up occurred as 33-year-old Bravest Faizal Coto was headed eastbound on the Belt Parkway near Bay 8th Street in Bath Beach around 4:45 a.m. in his blue 2008 Ford Mustang, authorities said. Surveillance video from the highway, which was murky because of vehicle headlights, captured the Coney Island fireman pulling over to the right shoulder of the road at Exit 4 and another car getting off with him, sources said.
The other car was described as a silver four-door Infiniti sedan. Cops believe that the cars may have bumped into each other — or one of the drivers cut the other off at some point, with their vehicles never making contact — and they were pulling over to the side to hash it out, sources said.