Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ken Thompson

A Look Back at Ken Thompson’s 2015 Interview With TransAlt

By Streetsblog | Oct 11, 2016 | 2 Comments

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson died from cancer on Sunday just a few days after publicly announcing his illness. Thompson, who took office in 2014, was considered a leader among NYC district attorneys in taking reckless driving seriously. In 2015 Transportation Alternatives spoke with Thompson about street safety and traffic justice. Streetsblog reposted this interview from TA’s […]

Brooklyn DA Charges Driver With Manslaughter for Killing Victoria Nicodemus

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

A grand jury has indicted Marlon Sewell for second-degree manslaughter six months after he jumped a curb in Fort Greene and killed 30-year-old Victoria Nicodemus while driving with a suspended license, Gothamist reports. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson had refrained from pressing felony charges until Nicodemus’s family pressured his office to take action. On December 6, Sewell, driving a Chevy SUV […]

Driver Who Killed Man While Fleeing NYPD Pleads to Manslaughter

By Brad Aaron | Jun 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

A driver who killed a man on a Brooklyn sidewalk while attempting to evade police pled guilty to manslaughter. Police pulled Raymond Ramos over at Sterling Place and Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights shortly after midnight on March 9, 2015. As officers approached his car, Ramos, then 18, drove off. The Post and DNAinfo reported that […]

DA Ken Thompson Still Hasn’t Charged Driver for December Sidewalk Killing

By Brad Aaron | Jun 6, 2016 | 6 Comments

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson charged the driver who killed Victoria Nicodemus on a Fort Greene sidewalk with unlicensed driving, but did not file charges for taking the victim’s life. Six months after the crash, Nicodemus’s family says the DA is dragging his feet on the case. Marlon Sewell hit Nicodemus, her boyfriend, and another person with a Chevrolet SUV […]

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 […]

Gwendolyn Booker, Killed by School Bus Driver on Atlantic Avenue Sidewalk

By Brad Aaron | Feb 8, 2016 | 7 Comments

Another pedestrian was killed on Atlantic Avenue when a motorist struck a woman on the sidewalk. Gwendolyn Booker, 50, was walking on Atlantic near Schenectady Avenue last Friday at around 6:30 p.m. when a school bus driver mounted the curb, according to NYPD and published accounts. From Gothamist: The bus struck two light poles, a gas station, […]

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