Woman Killed by Hit-and-Run On Second Avenue & E. 57th Street

For the second time in five days, a hit-and-run driver has killed a victim on the Upper East Side.

In the latest, a 69-year-old woman was killed in the wee hours of March 25, with an unidentified suspect driving a black SUV fleeing the scene. Police are still determining who drove the car, a spokesperson told Our Town, and no arrests have been made.

The name of the deceased was not released pending notification of the next of kin.

Cops said that the victim was struck while crossing the intersection of Second Avenue & E. 57th Street, at around 4:28 a.m. She was rushed by responding paramedics to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition, but could not be saved.

Five days earlier, at around 4:43 a.m. on March 20, Harlem resident Terrill Jenkins was run over by a fuel truck reversing against traffic into the intersection of East 61st Street and Lexington Avenue.

Jenkins was also rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center by EMS, where he died of his injuries.

A suspect in that incident, 33-year-old Florida resident Paul Spano, turned himself into a precinct in Brooklyn by 7 a.m. that day. He was charged with crimes including “leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a fatality” and “failure to use due care resulting in a serious injury.”

Spano was granted supervised release by a judge, after prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office requested either a $75,000 cash bail or $150,000 insurance bond bail.

According to details from Spano’s arraignment, he allegedly knocked Jenkins to the ground before running him over completely. He then reportedly disembarked from the fuel truck, glanced at the grievously injured Jenkins, and hopped back in the truck and drove away without rendering assistance to the dying man.

Relatives of Jenkins, including his uncle Peter Mulligan, later told the Daily News that Jenkins had called his coworkers at the Home Depot where he worked as he lay injured on the ground and was fading in and out of consciousness. Workers ran out of the store, but could not find him. He had worked there for eight years, a certificate he received reportedly noted.

Another destructive hit-and-run resulted in death outside the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem last week, as well, just nine hours before Jenkins was run over.

Cops say that a 49-year-old driver of an SUV, who was reportedly high on PCP, sped east down W. 125th Street at around 8 p.m. on March 19—killing a young delivery biker from the Dominican Republic, seriously wounding another, and mildly injuring additional pedestrians.

The suspect in that case, Bronx resident Kevin Crosby, had reportedly lost control of his vehicle at a speed of around 60 mph. He was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter in the second degree, and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs.

The victim, Darly Zacarias, 28, was killed just a day before his son’s 10th birthday. Crosby also reportedly slammed into an unoccupied police cruiser, which itself was shoved into a Lexus. He then hit a parked Toyota RAV4 and ended up crashing the SUV into a tractor-trailer, before being taken into custody at the scene.

A 23-year-old man and 28 year-old woman sitting in the Lexus, as well as a man sitting in the parked Toyota, were all taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.