BUSHWICK — Brooklyn man was sentenced to prison for causing a 2024 fatal hit-and-run crash in Bushwick that killed a 29-year-old man and seriously injured three others before fleeing the scene on foot.

According to the evidence, on Jan. 8, 2024, at approximately 12:45 a.m., Christopher Seabrook, 29, of Brooklyn, was speeding in a Kia Sportage southbound on Irving Avenue in Bushwick when he crashed into a Toyota Yaris traveling through the intersection at Stockholm Street. 

The force of the impact spun the Toyota into multiple parked vehicles.

The crash killed 29-year-old Hayden Wallace, who was riding in the right rear passenger seat of the Toyota, seriously injuring the vehicle’s three other occupants. 

The surviving victims suffered numerous severe injuries, including fractured ribs, fractured clavicles, internal injuries, and organ damage that required surgeries and lengthy hospital stays.

After the crash, Seabrook exited the Kia and fled the scene on foot before police and emergency responders arrived. Video surveillance later tracked the defendant walking to a nearby smoke shop after the collision. He was arrested in February 2025 following an investigation.

Seabrook was sentenced Monday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Hecht to up to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting on April 16, 2026

“Hayden Wallace had recently moved to Brooklyn and was already building community here in the city when his life was tragically cut short,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. “I hope today’s sentence brings a measure of justice and closure to his loved ones.”

The DA thanked Digital Evidence Lab Analyst Zoe Feygin, Unit Chief Jingu Chong, Paralegals Toki Persaud and Sangdoma Sherpa, Supervising Paralegal Jason Martinez, Detective Curt Cunningham of the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad, and a KCDA Detective Investigator for their assistance on the case.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Alexander Davis of the District Attorney’s Virtual Currency Unit and Leigh Ann Perez, deputy bureau chief of the District Attorney’s Grey Zone Trial Bureau, under the general supervision of Christopher Velez, deputy chief of the District Attorney’s Street Safety Bureau, and the overall supervision of Jennifer Nocella, Street Safety bureau chief.