Police have arrested a delivery-truck driver in the horrific hit-and-run crash that left a 16-year-old woman lifeless and her 8-year-old sister injured in Queens final month.
Boubacar Barry, 29, was allegedly driving the water supply truck that barreled into Jael Zhinin and her youthful sibling at forty seventh Avenue and forty sixth Avenue in Woodside on June 26, police mentioned Wednesday.
Barry allegedly disobeyed the pedestrian right-of-way on a left flip sign and barreled by the crosswalk because the sisters had been trying to cross the intersection.
He then drove off, however his car was discovered by police close by on the intersection of forty sixth Avenue and forty eighth Avenue.
Barry, who wasn’t injured, was arrested Tuesday morning at a constructing on Broome Avenue in Manhattan, cops mentioned.
He faces costs that embody criminally negligent murder, leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in demise and failure to yield to a pedestrian, in accordance with the NYPD.
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