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A Vermont motorist has been arrested for fatally striking a Brooklyn parent of six aft she shielded her teenage lad from the oncoming pickup truck, NYPD officials said Friday.
Mitchell Maldonado, 33, is facing charges including leaving the country of an mishap resulting successful decease and nonaccomplishment to output to a pedestrian for the March 3, 2023 Coney Island clang connected Mermaid Ave. astatine W. 24th St. that killed 41-year-old Tamika Richards and earnestly injured her 18-year-old lad Rayquan Parker.
Mother and lad were crossing Mermaid Ave. astatine astir 8:50 p.m. erstwhile Maldonado’s reddish pickup came barreling towards them, cops said.
As the motortruck came closer, Richards jumped successful beforehand of her lad and yelled for the operator to halt earlier taking the brunt of the deadly impact, Rayquan told friends and relatives.
“When she saw the motortruck coming, she positioned herself successful beforehand of him to support him,” household person Zemaya Williams, 21, told the Daily News aft the crash. “So she ended up taking astir of the impact.”
Maldonado, of Burlington, Vt., ne'er stopped and disappeared into the night, cops said.
The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates aft 2 pedestrians were struck connected Mermaid Ave. and W. 24th St. successful Coney Island connected March 3, 2023. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily NewsEMS rushed Richards to Coney Island Hospital but she could not beryllium saved. Rayquan, a elder astatine John Dewey High School astatine the time, was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn successful unchangeable condition, but suffered superior injuries to his pelvis that could impact his quality to walk.
After surgery, Rayquan was sent to a rehabilitation halfway to statesman carnal therapy truthful helium could regain afloat movement, relatives said.
Detectives from the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad spent the adjacent year tracking Maldonado’s motortruck and gathering a lawsuit against him.
A Brooklyn expansive assemblage precocious indicted him for the hit-and-run and a warrant for his apprehension was issued.
Cops caught up with Maldonado aft helium was sentenced to 13 years successful situation for a burglary condemnation successful Vermont, officials said. The burglary took spot successful 2021 and helium was convicted for the break-in 3 months aft the Brooklyn hit-and-run.
Scene wherever a parent and lad were struck connected Mermaid Ave. successful Coney Island, Brooklyn connected March 3, 2023. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily NewsHe was brought to New York connected Wednesday and was ordered held without bail during a little arraignment Wednesday evening, cops said.
A telephone to Maldonado’s lawyer was not instantly returned Friday.
Rayquan told relatives that Maldonado had blown a reddish airy earlier crashing into him and his mother. The 2 had tally retired to the store to prime up immoderate drinks for a relative’s upcoming visit, household members said.
“He remembers it being a reddish light,” Williams recalled. ” He remembers proceeding his parent telling the operator to halt and the operator conscionable coming adjacent faster. He remembers being nether the motortruck — going nether and waking up and them giving his parent CPR. He doesn’t adjacent cognize that his ma is dormant close now.”
The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates aft 2 pedestrians were struck connected Mermaid Ave. and W. 24th St. successful Coney Island connected March 3, 2023. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily NewsRichards had 3 sons and 3 daughters, the oldest 20, and the youngest 8. She was overjoyed by the commencement of her archetypal grandchild astir six months ago, a lad named Hakim fathered by her oldest son. All the kids and her grandchild unrecorded successful her apartment.
“She’s ALWAYS looked retired for everyone successful her family, astir the neighborhood, anyone that she came across, and she always had her children arsenic her #1 PRIORITY,” her sister Shaquana Folks, wrote connected a GoFundMe station seeking donations to support the azygous mom’s household afloat.
More than 1,000 radical signed a petition to sanction the intersection wherever she was killed to “Tamika Ashika Richards Way” arsenic a secondary thoroughfare name.
“Our sister was a FEARLESS spirit, a provider, a protector….but astir of each she was a HERO,” Richards’ different sister Shavonna Folks wrote connected the petition. “What different mode much fitting to grant an enactment of heroism?”
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