The suspect who hit 90-year-old Chinese man Zhuo L Xie (transliteration) on a moped in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn on the 8th of this month and then fled was arrested. The 61st Precinct of the New York Police Department said on the 24th that they arrested the suspect in the fatal car accident, Steven Malcaus, in the jurisdiction of the 68th Precinct at 6:50 p.m. on the 23rd. The motorcyclist was charged with three counts of fleeing the scene after the fatal accident, aggravated unlicensed driving, and unlicensed driving.
Police said that the male suspect Malcaus is 63 years old and lives near 14th Avenue and 86th Street in Brooklyn. The deceased, Zhuo L Xie, lives near V Avenue and East 15th Street, less than two blocks away from the accident site.
The police also announced the details of the fatal car accident. At about 9:34 a.m. on July 8, the police received a 911 call saying that a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle at the intersection of U Avenue and East 14th Street. The NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad (NYPD HDCIS) determined that an unidentified person was driving a blue moped southbound at the intersection of East 14th Street and U Avenue when he collided with a 90-year-old male pedestrian who was crossing East 14th Street from the southwest corner in the crosswalk. The pedestrian suffered serious head injuries and was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in critical condition and was later pronounced dead. The moped driver did not stay at the scene of the accident.
This fatal car accident caused a strong reaction from the surrounding residents. Surveillance video showed that after the perpetrator knocked down the elderly man Xie Zhuo, he tried to help him up, but failed. However, the perpetrator stayed at the scene for less than two minutes and drove away on the moped.
Three days after this fatal car accident, at about 4 a.m. on July 11, another fatal car accident occurred in Brooklyn. Faqiu Lin, 59, and Kexun Chen, 80, were walking along 52nd Street and crossing 3rd Avenue in Sunset Park when they were hit by a speeding BMW and died on the spot. Eight days later, at about 9:00 a.m. on the 19th, a car lost control at the Manhattan Bridge and rushed onto the sidewalk at high speed, hitting a man riding a bicycle and a Chinese woman named May Kwok sitting on a bench on the street. Both died on the spot. These three car accidents all caused the death of Chinese people, causing the Chinese community to pay strong attention to traffic safety.
