NEW YORK — A grandmother is dead and an 8-year-old child is in critical condition after a driver fleeing NYPD officers struck multiple pedestrians in Brooklyn on Saturday.
It happened just after 7pm at Macon Street and Ralph Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to police.
NYPD officers attempted to pull over the suspect car after observing mismatched plates on the car and two people inside who appeared to be smoking marijuana, authorities said.
Officers pulled the vehicle over at Ralph Avenue and Chauncey Street, but when they got out of the patrol car and began to approach it, the driver of the vehicle sped off.
“The vehicle fled northbound on Ralph Avenue and struck a bicyclist and two pedestrians at the corner of Ralph Avenue and Macon Street. That vehicle continued northbound on Ralph Avenue and at the corner of Halsey Street struck another pedestrian and struck a vehicle,” NYPD Assistant Chief Judith Harrison said at a press conference Saturday night.
One pedestrian, who police say was a 67-year-old grandmother, was pronounced dead at the scene. An 8-year-old boy was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
Three other victims were taken to local hospitals to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
NYPD officials said one person was taken into custody, although it’s not clear if that person was the driver or the passenger.