Woman Killed by Hit-and-Run on Second Ave. & E. 58th Street

For the second time in five days, a hit-and-run driver has killed a victim on the Upper East Side, this time on Second Avenue & E. 58th Street.

In the latest, a 69-year-old woman was killed in the early morning on March 25, by a man driving a black SUV fleeing the scene. Police have now arrested 43-year-old Bryan Alexis Guashpa Rumipamba in connection with the incident, a police spokesperson told Our Town.

The victim was indentified as Espina Bundley has been identified as the victim, after her family was notified.

According to details from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Guashpa Rumipamba reportedly drove the vehicle from his brother’s home in Far Rockaway, Queens. Video from the scene shows him speeding up to beat a yellow light.

Cops say that they tracked the car, which Guashpa Rumipamba reportedly told them belonged to his brother, to a home on Beach 65th St. in the Arverne neighborhood on Rockaway Beach. He was said to have told police that he didn’t have permission to drive the car, according to prosecutors.

Cops said that Bundley was struck while crossing the intersection of 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 blocks away only 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 deadly uptown crash happened outside the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem last week in which one person was killed and four others were injured.

In that deadly crash on Adam Clayton Powell Blvd and West 125th Street, cop 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 over 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.