Police are looking for the driving force who struck and killed a 44-year-old man on the Higher East Facet in a hit-and-run collision early on Friday morning.
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Police are looking for the driving force who struck and killed a 44-year-old man on the Higher East Facet in a hit-and-run collision early on Friday morning.
Authorities mentioned the lethal incident occurred close to the nook of Lexington Avenue and East 61st Avenue simply earlier than 4:55 a.m. on March 20.
Primarily based on a preliminary investigation, police decided that the 44-year-old male sufferer was struck as he tried to cross on the intersection by the driving force of an unknown automobile touring southbound on Lexington Avenue.
Regardless of hitting the person, police sources mentioned, the unknown driver didn’t cease and as a substitute fled the scene.
Officers from the nineteenth Precinct discovered the sufferer mendacity within the roadbed with extreme physique trauma. EMS rushed him to Weill Cornell Medical Heart, the place he was pronounced useless. Police haven’t but launched the person’s id, pending household notification.
Nicely after dawn Friday, police had saved the block of Lexington Avenue between East 61st and sixtieth Streets sealed off as they combed the scene for proof.
To this point, no arrests have been made within the ongoing investigation, police mentioned. The case is now within the arms of the NYPD Freeway Patrol Collision Investigation Squad.
Anybody with details about the lethal hit-and-run can name Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You may as well submit ideas on-line at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (previously Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are saved confidential.
Since 2021, the intersection of Lexington Avenue and East 61st Avenue has seen two crashes, none of which resulted in a fatality, in response to NYC Crash Mapper.
