A teenager abducted with a friend from a mall parking lot said he played dead after the carjacker drove the two to a desolate area and fatally shot the friend.
Michael Falcone, 18, was slain Monday and Edward Lamont Summers was captured later that day driving Falcone's 1993 Jeep, police said.Scott Nappi, also 18, was shot after Falcone but survived.
"He (the gunman) said to me `Don't look at me, put your face in the snow. I don't want you looking at me,' " Nappi said Tuesday from Nyack Hospital. "He paused and that made me turn my head and he shot me."
Nappi continued: "I played dead. I closed my eyes and held my breath. I was prepared to die. I was just ready to accept death. I had had a happy life. I was once a Yankee batboy."
Falcone and Nappi attended Rockland Community College and had been friends since they were 10. Both were shot in the head.
Summers, 22, was home for the holidays in New York City's Bronx borough. He finished his sophomore year at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg and was expected to continue as a pre-med student.
"It defies reason," prosecutor Kenneth Gribetz said of the shootings. "Only God knows and he (Summers) knows. Nobody else can give you the reason."