A Long Island man is facing up to life in prison for allegedly killing a teenage girl in a drunken hit-and-run in Queens after prosecutors say he tried to offer her and her mother money for sexual acts and became enraged when the girl’s stepfather and boyfriend confronted him.

The man, 38-year-old Edwin Cruz Gomez of Uniondale, was outside the Prima Donna restaurant on Roosevelt Avenue in Elmhurst with a group of other men around 4 a.m. Saturday when 16-year-old Jhoanny Alvarez and her mother walked by, according to the Queens district attorney’s office. Cruz Gomez began harassing them and got into an altercation with Alvarez’s stepfather and boyfriend that turned physical and led bystanders to separate the men, prosecutors said.

Alvarez and her group walked away from the restaurant towa

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