New York Daily News

Vid shows car hitting, killing B’klyn grandma

- BY THOMAS TRACY With Emma Seiwell

A suspected car thief who fatally ran down a grandmothe­r crossing a Brooklyn street sped through oncoming traffic as he fled the cops before slamming into a corner store and running off, shocking video obtained by the Daily News shows.

The out-of-control driver clipped another pedestrian at the corner before crashing into the building, the video shows. But the heartless driver and his passenger never stopped to survey the damage, scrambling out of the car and running off.

The chaos began when police pulled over the dark-colored Honda HR-V at Ralph Ave. and Chauncey St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 7:10 p.m. Saturday because it had mismatched plates — a sign that the car had likely been stolen. But the man behind the wheel hit the gas when cops approached.

He T-boned a 28-year-old bicyclist as he fled, cops said.

He then plowed into Lyn Christophe­r as she crossed Ralph Ave. further down the block with her 8-year-old grandson Jacob Butler.

The two were walking home from the park when the HR-V slammed into them, relatives said.

The driver continued on, striking a motorist in a Honda Accord.

Surveillan­ce video from the corner of Ralph Ave. and Halsey St. shows what happened next.

A 43-year-old man was walking to the corner, a shopping bag in each hand, when he saw the rampaging SUV speeding through cross traffic at Halsey St.

He backed up, not sure what to do, when the HR-V driver struck a Honda, sending the car into a bus shelter, and vaulted the curb.

The HR-V driver struck the man, sending him flying backward, and pancaked a moped parked against the corner store.

Five seconds after hitting the building, the driver, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans, opened the car door and ran off, the video shows. His passenger, wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, follows him out the driver’s-side door.

The two men have not been caught or identified.

Christophe­r died at the scene. Her grandson is in critical condition on a ventilator at Maimonides Medical Center. “He’s still hanging on strong,” the boy’s uncle Marvin Christophe­r said Thursday. “No changes so far.”

The man holding the shopping bags, the bicyclist and the Honda driver are all expected to recover.

Anyone with informatio­n is asked to call Crime Stoppers. All calls will be kept confidenti­al.

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