Apr. 1, 2025 By Bill Parry A Staten Island man was struck and killed by a van driver as he was exiting his vehicle in Woodhaven on Friday morning, and two other men were injured, one of them critically, during the chain reaction crash, police said Sunday. Police from the 102nd Precinct in Ozone…
Feb. 18, 2025 By Bill Parry A Bay Terrace man turned himself in at the 111th Precinct in Bayside after a Queens grand jury indicted him in connection to a fatal hit-and-run crash on the Whitestone Expressway that killed an MTA supervisor from Jackson Heights in February 2024. James Vennitti, 63, of Darren Drive,…
Feb. 10, 2025 By Bill Parry A 27-year-old woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the Belt Parkway in Springfield Gardens early Saturday morning. Police from the 116th Precinct in Rosedale responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision near 223rd Street and came upon the wreckage of a white Toyota…
Feb. 7, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Flushing woman and her friend from the Bronx for various crimes related to the August 2024 hit-and-run death of 56-year-old David Opiela, two blocks from his Queensboro Hill home. Jamie Ferreira, 37, of 98th Street, was allegedly behind the wheel of a…
Feb. 6, 2025 By Bill Parry New York Attorney General Letitia James’ Office of Special Investigation (OSI) released its report on Wednesday into the death of Ervin Zacarias Antonio Agustin, a 23-year-old man from Valley Stream, LI, who died on May 19, 2024, following a motor vehicle collision involving an NYPD officer near Archer…
Oct. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Long Island man for manslaughter and other related crimes in a fatal road rage collision on the Long Island Expressway in Queensboro Hill in mid-August. Shaqeem Douglas, 26, of Maple Street in Freeport, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday for…
Oct. 21, 2024 By Bill Parry A moped rider from Jamaica was killed while riding just north of JFK Airport in South Ozone Park on Saturday night. Police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision on the Nassau Expressway at Lefferts Boulevard just after…
Aug. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry A Rockaway Beach man was arrested on Tuesday, Aug. 20, after he was indicted by a Queens grand jury two years after a fatal collision that killed his girlfriend’s sister. Javon Galette, 30, of Shore Front Parkway, was arraigned later that day in Queens Criminal Court, where he…
May. 3, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Brooklyn man was indicted by a Queens grand jury on charges of manslaughter, drunk driving and other crimes for a fatal collision in Astoria that killed his long-time girlfriend and mother of their young child in February.
Mar. 5, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Rosedale woman, who relocated to Philadelphia, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday on an indictment charging her with criminally negligent homicide in connection with a high-speed collision on the Cross Island Parkway that killed her cousin and left her aunt gravely injured.