New York Daily News

Vows to find hit-run killer of his Bx. dad

- Edgar Sandoval, Adam Shrier and Thomas Tracy

THE OUTRAGED son of a Bronx man killed in a hit-and-run crash vowed Wednesday to take justice into his own hands if cops fail to find the heartless driver.

“If they don’t find him, trust me, I will,” said Christian Delgado, 21, the son of victim Dennis Gandarilla, a deliveryma­n and father of four.

“He was actually finishing his job delivering food at a shelter,” Delgado said. “He was walking home when the van hit him.”

Gandarilla, 49, was struck by a dark-colored SUV on Macy Place near Rev. Ricardo Tanon Ave. around noon Tuesday, cops said. Witnesses said the driver sped away.

Medics rushed Gandarilla, who grew up in Puerto Rico, to Lincoln Hospital, where he died.

The crash was the second hitand-run accident in the city within 24 hours, police said.

Twelve hours before Gandarilla was killed, a Jeep Liberty struck a 55-year-old man walking his bicycle down a Queens street.

Witnesses said Mariusz Szabat, of Queens, was on Juniper Valley Road near 75th Place in Middle Village at 11:45 p.m. when the gray Jeep knocked him into a parked Toyota, leaving him with serious injuries, cops said.

The driver stopped briefly, then took off, police said. Medics took Szabat to Elmhurst Hospital Center for treatment, cops said.

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