Nov. 26, 2024 By Bill Parry A grandmother from the Bronx was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver near JFK Airport in Springfield Gardens on Saturday morning. Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck at the intersection of 150th Street and North Conduit Avenue…
Nov. 26, 2024 By Bill Parry A woman was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver after she jumped out of an Uber on the Long Island Expressway near Main Street in Flushing early Saturday morning. Police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows responded to a 911 call on Nov. 23 of a pedestrian…
Sept. 18, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria are still looking for the hit-and-run driver who struck a 42-year-old Kew Gardens woman during the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 24. The victim, Shalon Samaroo, was crossing the street at Broadway and Steinway Street at 2:20 a.m. when she was… Read more »
Sept. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry A grieving Woodside mother returned to the intersection where her 16-year-old daughter was fatally struck by a hit-and-run delivery truck on the last day of school, calling for urgent city action to curb traffic violence and safeguard children after the same driver also injured her younger daughter. Maria Sumba… Read more »
Aug. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry A South Ozone Park man was indicted by a Queens grand jury for a fatal collision that killed a 67-year-old pedestrian from Long Island who was visiting with kin on Christmas Day 2019. Ravinda Dharamjit, 26, of 124th Street, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Friday morning…
Aug. 20, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are looking for two women who ran away from the scene of a fatal collision in Queensboro Hill early Tuesday morning. One of the women was behind the wheel of a 2015 Ford U-Haul box truck traveling westbound on the Horace…
July 23, 2024 By Bill Parry A delivery truck driver from Manhattan was indicted by a Queens grand jury for a hit-and-run collision that killed a 16-year-old girl and injured her little sister near I.S. 125 in Woodside on the last day of school. Boubacar Barry, 28, of Broome Street in lower Manhattan was arraigned… Read more »
July 15, 2024 By Bill Parry A Woodhaven man was arrested and booked at the 108th Precinct in Long Island City on Thursday and charged with criminally negligent homicide and related crimes for a fatal hit-and-run that killed a city employee from Brooklyn just a block away from the precinct more than a year ago…. Read more »
June 27, 2024 By Bill Parry The truck driver who was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon following a fatal hit-and-run collision near a Woodside school that killed a 16-year-old girl and left her 8-year-old sister critically injured has not been charged as of Thursday night, according to an NYPD spokesman, who added the investigation… Read more »
Jun. 26, 2024 By Bill Parry
A St. Albans man surrendered himself at the 111th Precinct in Bayside on Tuesday morning after he was indicted by a Queens grand jury in a fatal hit-and-run near JFK Airport nearly three years ago.