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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Brooklyn hit-and-run victim, 72, killed on his way to family cookout
The son of a 72-year-old Brooklyn man killed by a hit-and-run driver says he wants justice for his father — and a look at surveillance footage of the grisly incident. Larry Maxwell was crossing the street outside his longtime home in Brownsville's Langston Hughes Houses to attend a family cookout in a nearby park Saturday when he was struck by a driver fleeing a fender-bender. The driver has not been caught. 'There are so many cameras,' Maxwell's distraught son, Larnce Vargas, 41, said of the on-the-loose driver. 'So why is he still at large, if there's so many cameras? Y'all can find any and everybody else, but y'all can't find him. That don't make sense.' First responders rushed Maxwell unconscious and unresponsive from the scene on Sutter Ave. near Osborn St. to Brookdale University Hospital, where he died, cops said. The victim had been talking with his son, who lives nearby, earlier that afternoon. 'I was just on the phone with him,' Vargas said. 'We just finished watching the Knicks game actually. Right after the game we were supposed to meet up at the park across the street for a cookout — right across the street from the building he was coming out of. He got struck right in front of the building.' The family now plans to hold a vigil for Maxwell Friday on what would have been his 73rd birthday. That horrific hit-run happened just moments after the driver collided with a 2023 Chevrolet Malibu traveling east on Sutter Ave. at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, cops said. The 46-year-old driver of the Malibu and a passenger remained at the scene and were not hurt, police said. The other driver kept going and slammed into Maxwell without stopping. Vargas said investigators haven't given him much to go on. 'They just giving me, 'Oh, we're still looking at footage, we're still looking at footage,'' Vargas said. 'I want to see the footage, too. Why can't we see the footage?' Vargas described his dad, a retired maintenance worker, as a hardworking man who looked out for and got along with everybody. Vargas said his father had 15 kids, ranging in age from 31 to 55, including two who preceded him in death. 'He was always there for his kids and his grandkids,' Vargas said. Vargas said he couldn't believe the driver was so reckless. 'He didn't care what he did,' Vargas said. 'He didn't care about my father. He didn't care about nothing. Man, if that's the case, he killed my father. He murdered my father. I need justice for my father.' Maxwell's sister, Debora Ferguson, said cops told her that detectives talked to a suspect but have not arrested him yet. She said the driver cops spoke to claimed he didn't hit anyone. 'He's basically now worrying about his life, and not the life that he took and the families that he destroyed,' Ferguson said of the suspect. 'The only thing we want is for the prosecutor to have them arrested. He has to take accountability.'
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Yahoo
Cab driver shot while working drives himself to Brooklyn hospital: NYPD
CANARSIE, Brooklyn (PIX11) – Police are searching for the suspect accused of shooting a cab driver in Brooklyn early Monday morning, the NYPD said. It happened in Canarsie around 1:40 a.m., according to authorities. A 54-year-old cab driver and his passenger were arguing, police said. More Local News The passenger then left the car, according to authorities. The cab driver then heard a loud bang and realized he had been shot in the cheek, police said. The driver drove himself to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, according to authorities. Police do not have a description of the suspect. Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Erin Pflaumer is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered both local and national news since 2018. She joined PIX11 in 2023. See more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Yahoo
Unlicensed Mercedes driver kills his passenger in crash with school bus, flees in taxi: NYPD
An unlicensed driver killed a young woman riding in his Mercedes-Benz when he crashed into a school bus in Brooklyn — and then fled the scene in a taxi, cops said Sunday. Tyree Epps, 32, was speeding south in a 2008 Mercedes-Benz C300 on Van Sinderen Ave. in Brownsville when police say he sped through a stop sign at Blake Ave. about 1 p.m. Thursday. He plowed into the rear driver's side of an eastbound 2019 Blue Bird school bus, sending it careening into a parked box truck, according to police. Imani Vance, 26, who was sitting in the passenger seat of Epps' Mercedes, suffered severe head trauma, cops said. Medics rushed her to Brookdale University Hospital but she couldn't be saved. The 57-year-old woman driving the school bus was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition. Police later arrested Epps, who lives in East New York. He is being charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of a fatal crash and driving without a license. He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court Friday and ordered held without bail.
Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Yahoo
Mercedes driver hit with manslaughter charge after crashing into school bus in Brooklyn, killing passenger
An unlicensed hit-and-run driver killed a young woman riding in his Mercedes-Benz in a chain-reaction crash involving a school bus in Brooklyn Thursday, then tried to flee the scene in a taxi, cops aid. Tyree Epps, 32, was going south on Van Sinderen Ave. in a 2008 Mercedes-Benz C300 when police say he sped through a stop sign at Blake Ave. in Brownsville just after 1 p.m. He plowed into the rear driver's side of a 2019 Blue Bird school bus going East on Blake, sending the bus careening into a nearby parked box truck, according to police. Imani Vance, 26, who was sitting in the passenger seat of Epps' Mercedes, suffered severe head trauma, cops said. Medics took her to Brookdale University Hospital, but she couldn't be saved. The 57-year-old woman driving the school bus also suffered injuries and was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition. Police later arrested Epps, who lives in East New York. He is being charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of a fatal crash and driving without a license. He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court Friday and ordered held without bail.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Yahoo
Two slashed, including MTA security guard, in separate NYC subway attacks
Two people — including a security guard — were mercilessly slashed Monday in disturbing subway attacks that erupted just minutes apart in Manhattan and Brooklyn, police sources said. In the first incident, a security guard contracted by the MTA at the 86th St. station on the Upper East Side confronted a man sneaking onto the downtown platform of the Nos. 4, 5, and 6 trains around 6:25 p.m., sources said. The 30-year-old guard tried to stop the fare evader, who became irate and pulled out a boxcutter, slashing the guard across the face. Medics took the wounded security guard to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, where he was in stable condition. 'He was just doing his job,' an MTA employee at the station said later Monday night. '[The attacker] was definitely a psycho.' About a half hour later, two men argued on a Canarsie-bound L train, police said. As the train rumbled toward the Wilson Ave. station in Bushwick, one of the men pulled out a blade and slashed the 30-year-old man he was arguing with. The man, suffering from slash wounds to his back and neck, was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where he was expected to survive. There were no immediate arrests in either slashing.
