Aug. 13, 2025 By Bill Parry Police are searching for the driver who struck and killed a pedestrian near JFK Airport in Springfield Gardens early Wednesday morning. Police from the 116th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian just before 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 13, on South…
Aug. 1, 2025 By Bill Parry A southeast Queens man is facing 25 years to life in prison after he was convicted by a jury of murder, assault and other related charges for a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a mom on Mother’s Day 2022 on a South Jamaica dead-end street. Roosevelt Rose, of…
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. 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…
Dec. 26, 2024 By Bill Parry A St. Albans woman was struck and killed by two vehicles just steps from her home near a dead-end street on Christmas night. Police from the 113th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian at the intersection of 111th Avenue and…
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…