The 32-year-old Brooklyn girl accused of rushing right into a household crossing the road, killing a mom and two daughters and leaving a 4-year-old preventing for all times, confronted a decide for the primary time Thursday, officers say.
Miriam Yarimi is going through expenses of manslaughter, legal negligent murder, assault, reckless driving, failing to yield proper on a crimson mild, rushing and driving on a suspended license in Saturday’s lethal crash, which occurred as households had been out having fun with the great climate.
She didn’t enter a plea from the hospital on Thursday and was present process a psychiatric analysis.
Investigators stated Yarimi was behind the wheel of the blue Audi sedan that barreled by the Midwood intersection and struck 34-year-old Natasha Saada and her three children. The daughters who died had been 5 and eight years previous. The 4-year-old son was being handled for critical accidents.
Their father had supposedly been at residence with one other child when the accident occurred.
Police allege that Yarimi was driving northbound on Ocean Parkway when she struck the rear bumper of a Toyota Camry turning proper onto the parkway from Quentin Street. Yarimi apparently misplaced management of her automotive and crashed into the pedestrians earlier than flipping the sedan and touchdown on its roof.
Data on her legal professional wasn’t instantly clear. Whereas being taken into custody, prosecutors informed the decide Yarimi made a number of unusual statements to police. They allege she stated “I didn’t want to kill anyone…show me the proof. Why am I being arrested? Where’s my daughter? I have the devil in my eyes…I need to scan my eyes.”
She additionally stated “people are out to get me…I was raped by a cop when I was 14. I didn’t kill anyone, takes the cuffs off. I want my lawyer.”
One other listening to is scheduled for Friday. The decide ordered Yarimi stay in custody on the hospital.
One witness recalled seeing our bodies everywhere in the floor after she and her father, who’s an EMT, ran to supply assist.
“They were kids and there was one of them was face down and one facing up,” the girl stated. “They crowded around them, they tried to give CPR to one of them.”
“I will call it like it is, this was a horrific tragedy caused by someone who shouldn’t have been on the road,” Tisch stated at a press convention 4 hours after the crash.
Transportation Options launched an announcement condemning the Audi driver’s document and urging motion by New York lawmakers to go laws in Albany that might set up velocity limiters on automobiles “of the most reckless repeat speeders.”
The group stated the girl “was driving whereas on a suspended license, and the Audi she was driving has greater than 90 tickets, together with greater than 13 faculty zone rushing tickets final 12 months.” She had racked up 1000’s of {dollars} in fines.
Mayor Eric Adams joined high NYPD brass for the press convention.
“To see a mom and her two kids misplaced to a car crash is extraordinarily regarding and painful,” Adams stated.
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) March 29, 2025
