24 year old driver arrested brutal hit-and-run accident It killed a “beloved” grandfather who was thrown into the air on a Brooklyn street last month, police said.
Brian Macoto-Morales, of Homecrest, turned himself in Thursday morning at the 83rd Precinct and has been charged with multiple charges for allegedly hitting Segundo Reina-Gaon, 74, as she crossed a Bay Ridge street on Sept. 11, according to police. Source.
Surveillance footage captured the moment Macoto-Morales’ white SUV struck Reina-Village – a seventy-year-old man from the crosswalk, into a parked car and then onto the sidewalk at Ridge Boulevard and Bay Ridge Avenue around 9 p.m. Hit the bump.
She was struck by a white SUV speeding north on Ridge Boulevard, police said.
EMTs transported Reena-Gaon to NYU Langone Hospital/Brooklyn but could not be saved.
A GoFundMe page created by his niece describes him as a “loving father and spouse” who leaves behind 20 grandchildren and five children.
One donor remembered Reina-Gaon as a kind neighbor.
“They watched our son go from a stroller to daycare and now school,” Justin Hall wrote on the page. “He always had a smile on his face and would ask how our son was, even if he was not with us.
“We will truly miss your smiling face every morning.”
After the fatal crash, Senator Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn), who represents the area, said the motorist “needs to be caught and prosecuted.”
“The video is hard to watch,” he wrote on X. “It appears the driver is not even reducing his speed.”
Macoto-Morales was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious injury, reckless endangerment and failure to obey a traffic device.
Police said that he has not had any previous arrest.
He was arraigned Thursday in Brooklyn Supreme Criminal Court and released on $75,000 bail, according to court records.
His next court date is set for January 7.
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