Robert Emmett Bowen III, a highly regarded bass player from Astoria who also was a well-respected music professor at Hofstra University, died Monday after being struck by a truck in a hit-and-run accident on Second Avenue in Manhattan while riding his bicycle. Bowen, a loving father of two school-age children, was 45. (Photo: Newsday)
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver after a professor from Hofstra University was struck and killed while riding his bike.
Robert Bowen, 45, was a music professor. He was hit by a truck on Second Avenue and 59th Street on August 26th.
The father of two died four days later.
So far, the NYPD has been unable to identify the driver who hit him.
