Elderly Woman Charged In Connection With Deadly Brooklyn Hit-And-Run
NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) -- An elderly Brooklyn driver has been charged with hitting and killing a teenager before leaving the scene.
The driver claims it was all an accident.
As CBS2's Tony Aiello reported, a close-knit Bangladeshi family was mourning the loss of a boy they said had a bright future on Friday.
Mohammed Uddin, 14, was killed, while walking home from an after school club, by a driver who fled the scene.
Lynn Reynolds, 78, has been charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Her lawyer insisted that it was a tragic accident, but the DA said that circumstances tell a different story.
It happened in Kensington as the driver turned from Caton Avenue onto East 7th Street.
A surveillance video shows Uddin moments before he stepped into the crosswalk and was struck by Reynolds' car.
Police say Lynn Reynolds admitted to stopping the car after making the turn, claiming she heard a noise, and got out to investigate, but also claims she didn't see the boy lying in the street just a few feet away.
"She did not see anyone injured, hurt. It was dark, at night, and then she went home," defense attorney Barry Deonarine said.
A witness say Reynolds leave, got her partial license plate, and police found her Chevy Impala just two blocks away.
Uddin's cousin said the boy's parents are devastated.
"They're just in shock, they don't believe that it happened, they don't understand how someone could hit a child, and not realize that you hit a child and just drive off like that," Afrin Talukder said.
The driver's daughter and friend left court without comment.
Deonarine said Reynolds feels terrible about what he called an accident, the DA called it a crime.
The defense asked that the elderly driver be released on her own recognizance, but the judge set bail at $25,000.
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