Overview
- Police identified the hit-and-run victim as 4-year-old Zachariah Padilla, who was struck near Rockaway Parkway and Linden Boulevard and pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital.
- Investigators say a white Ford SUV fled north on Rockaway Parkway after the crash; surveillance video has been recovered and no arrests have been announced.
- The Brooklyn corridor where Padilla was hit has a documented crash history and thousands of speed-camera violations, and the city’s DOT says it is reviewing the case.
- Transportation Alternatives is pressing the city to use new authority under Sammy’s Law to reduce the speed limit on Rockaway Parkway to 20 mph.
- In a separate incident, 14-year-old Johary Cantave was fatally shot in the head while sitting in a car near 46th Street and Ninth Avenue in Sunset Park, and the NYPD is searching for three suspects described as masked and dressed in black.