This story has been updated. A man was killed after a police car struck him while he was lying in the street near where the US Open is being held in New York City. The incident happened on Saturday, Aug.

A man died after a police officer in an NYPD car ran over him as he lay on a road in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens over the weekend, according to department officials.

A man is dead after being run over by in the middle of a busy Queens park last weekend by an NYPD car, police officials said. The man was lying face up in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Saturday afternoon when the fatal incident happened. Police said he had been on United Nations Avenue South, near the Unisphere, around 4:40 p.m.