Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Robert Johnson

People on the sidewalk scatter as Kwasi Oduro accelerates forward after backing into a restaurant and running over 7-year-old Ethan Villavicencio. Video still: News 12

Darcel Clark: Probation for Driver Who Killed Child Inside Bronx Restaurant and Fled Scene

By Brad Aaron | Feb 13, 2018 | 6 Comments

Kwasi Oduro killed Ethan Villavicencio, 7, and injured the boy’s little sister and father as they ate in a sandwich shop. Oduro got no jail time and may drive again in five years.

Driver Who Killed Cyclist on City Island Bridge Pleads Guilty to Homicide

By Brad Aaron | Oct 13, 2016 | 6 Comments

A motorist who fatally struck a woman riding a bike on the City Island Bridge pled guilty to felony leaving the scene and homicide. Gabriela Aguilar-Vallinos was on her way home from work at around 11:45 p.m. on September 11, 2015, when Michael Moreno hit her with a Hyundai sedan, then left the scene. Aguilar-Vallinos sustained head trauma and died at […]

Epileptic Cab Driver on Trial for Murder for Bronx Sidewalk Killings

By Brad Aaron | Feb 24, 2016 | 4 Comments

The driver of a green cab who killed a child and a man on a Bronx sidewalk last year was charged with murder. The Bronx district attorney’s office said Emilio Garcia was not taking his epilepsy medication when he fatally struck 5-year-old Tierre Clark and 25-year-old Kadeem Brown on the Grand Concourse at E. 170th Street on March 20, […]

Sidewalks Are No Sanctuary: Driver Jumps Curb, Kills 3 in the Bronx

By Brad Aaron | Nov 2, 2015 | 35 Comments

A motorist killed three people Saturday, including a 10-year-old girl, and injured three others when he drove onto a Bronx sidewalk crowded with trick-or-treaters. Police told the media Howard Unger, 52, of the Bronx, was driving west on Morris Park Avenue in a Dodge sedan at around 5 p.m. when he hit another vehicle from behind […]

DA Robert Johnson: Manslaughter Charges for Cab Driver Who Killed Two

By Brad Aaron | Oct 20, 2015 | 2 Comments

District Attorney Robert Johnson has filed felony charges against the green cab driver who killed two people on a Bronx sidewalk. Johnson’s office told Gothamist Emilio Garcia was off his epilepsy medication when he hit 5-year-old Tierre Clark and Kadeem Brown, 25, at the Grand Concourse and E. 170th Street on March 20. Reports published after the crash […]

NYPD: “No Criminality” as Cab Driver Runs Over Kids on Bronx Sidewalk

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2015 | 10 Comments

Several people, including a number of children, were seriously injured when a livery cab driver drove onto a sidewalk in the Bronx this morning. At around 7:45 the driver, a man whose name was not released, “lost control” of a Toyota Camry at 229 E. Kingsbridge Road, according to NYPD. A police spokesperson said the driver hit one woman and […]

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