Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about District Attorneys

No Right of Way Charge for Driver Who Killed Toddler in Bronx Crosswalk

By Brad Aaron | May 17, 2016 | 11 Comments

Update: Darcel Clark’s office sent us this statement: “Our office is investigating the incident with the NYPD Accident Investigation Squad, as we do with any fatality or serious injury when a pedestrian is struck.” NYPD and Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark have not charged the driver who struck and killed 3-year-old Mariam Dansoko in a […]

SI Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Cyclist With Boat Trailer

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2016 | 8 Comments

A motorist was charged with manslaughter for the death of a Staten Island cyclist who was struck by a boat trailer that detached from a truck. Alexa Cioffi and her friend Briana Emanuele were riding on Hylan Boulevard at Redgrave Avenue on the afternoon of September 14, 2015, when the driver of an SUV, who was […]

Majority of NYC DAs Agree: All City Schools Should Have Speed Cameras

By Brad Aaron | May 12, 2016 | 15 Comments

Three New York City district attorneys have endorsed Albany legislation that would allow New York City to install speed enforcement cameras outside every school. Cy Vance, Ken Thompson, and Richard Brown, the top prosecutors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, respectively, sent separate letters to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Assembly Transportation Chair David Gantt, and Manhattan […]

Truck Driver Charged With Reckless Driving for Killing Heather Lough at NYBG

By Brad Aaron | May 4, 2016 | 18 Comments

A truck driver struck and killed a woman outside the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx last week. He has been charged with reckless driving and failure to yield. The victim, 29-year-old Heather Lough, was heading to her job at the botanical garden on the morning of Wednesday, April 27, when Robert Owens, 45, hit her with […]

Driver Pleads to Manslaughter for Killing 12-Year-Old on Brooklyn Sidewalk

By Brad Aaron | May 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

Update: Robert DeCarlo was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison. A man who drove a stolen minivan into a woman and her two children on a Brooklyn sidewalk, killing a 12-year-old girl and leaving the other victims with life-altering injuries, has pled guilty to manslaughter. Robert DeCarlo hit Joie Sellers, her 9-year-old sister Charlie, and their […]

Driver Who Killed Charity Hicks Pleads to Homicide and Leaving the Scene

By Brad Aaron | Mar 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

The hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a Detroit woman as she waited for a bus in Hell’s Kitchen pled guilty to homicide and felony leaving the scene. He will serve a minimum of two and a maximum of six years in prison, pursuant to a judge’s plea offer. Thomas Shanley drove a Dodge SUV onto the […]

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