A household and neighborhood is grappling with the dying of 15-year-old Anthony Benitez, who was hit by a automobile whereas driving e-bike.
“Devastating. Devastating. That’s all I could say. We’re all heartbreaking,” Emily Alvaranga, the teenager’s aunt, mentioned.
However this isn’t only a story a few tragic accident.
This story begins in Queens on Hillside Avenue the place the NYPD says officers responded to a report of a knife level theft and the suspect was driving an e-bike. Police canvassed the neighborhood and noticed a 15-year-old child on a motorbike — who they are saying fled once they approached him. The NYPD says that child, now a suspect, was later hit and killed on Lakeville Highway. Neither the NYPD nor Nassau County Police will launch the identify of however Alvaranga says it’s her nephew and he was not a felony.
“All I want is justice for whatever happened to him,” Alvaranga said. “And I think all my family wants justice too.”
When pressed, the NYPD wouldn’t give NBC New York extra element about what occurred.
Flowers and candles mark the spot the place he took his final breath. On the scene of the crash, a number of mates and oldsters name Benitez a great scholar who performed soccer and lacrosse — and who beloved driving his bike.
“They said, ‘Mom they got it all wrong this kid would never do that. He’s a nice kid,’” a father or mother mentioned.
Alexandra Gerazounis, of New Hyde Park, shared comparable sentiments.
“Highly unlikely,” Gerazounis mentioned. “From what I see of the household and what I do know of the kid it doesn’t appear probably.”
Nassau County Police did make an arrest of the driving force of the automobile that hit the boy, 28-year-old Ruyan Ali of New Hyde Park was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with a fatality, aggravated unlicensed operation of a automobile.
In the meantime, the native highschool despatched out a recorded message providing grief counseling.
