Day: January 13, 2025

WAKI BULLOCK, 33, was sentenced Friday to 18 years to life for fatally shooting a father at the Kingsborough Houses in Crown Heights in 2019.

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A minivan driver hit and killed an 87-year-old pedestrian in Canarsie on Friday, police said, in what appeared to be Brooklyn’s first traffic fatality of 2025. 

The victim, Esther Sealy, was trying to cross East 88th Street at Avenue L at about 6:45 p.m. on Jan. 10, per the NYPD. As she walked, a 39-year-old man – who has not been named — struck her in the street as he drove westbound on Avenue L, toward East 86th Street.

After he struck Sealy, the driver hit an empty parked Toyota Camry, then stopped his car and remained on the scene until police arrived. Paramedics rushed Sealy, who was left with “severe trauma to the body,” to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. She lived just a block from the scene of the crash, according to the NYPD. 

The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad is investigating the incident, and no arrests had been made as of Jan. 13. 

There are not stop signs on Avenue L at East 88th Street, maps show, and crosswalks are only present east-west along the avenue — not north-south along the streets it crosses over. 

Sealy’s death was the first traffic-related fatality in Brooklyn in 2025, per police statistics. At least 31 pedestrians were killed in Brooklyn in 2024, statistics show, though safe-streets organization Transportation Alternatives had tracked at least 36 pedestrian fatalities as of Dec. 2, 2024. Many of those killed were seniors and older adults. Last April, an 87-year-old woman was killed by a car that was left in gear in Gravesend. In June, a 63-year-old wheelchair user was killed by a driver in Brownsville, weeks before an 83-year-old woman was fatally struck by a dump truck driver in Boerum Hill. In September, a 74-year-old man was killed in a Bay Ridge hit-and-run, and the driver of a Jeep hit and killed a 73-year-old woman in Midwood last month. 

FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED to a blaze that broke out at 1035 Lincoln Place in Crown Heights between Brooklyn and Kingston avenues on Sunday.

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A MEMORIAL WAS HELD on Sunday at First Baptist Church in Sheepshead Bay for Debrina Kawam, the victim of a December arson attack.

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OFF-DUTY FDNY FIREFIGHTER Jean Negron-Davila, 36, was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.

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A collection of topical political cartoons from various artists curated by the Brooklyn Eagle editorial staff.

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