Police say a father of three was killed in a hit-and-run early Sunday morning at a NYCHA building parking lot in Melrose.<\/p>\n
Police confirmed to News 12 they responded to a call of a motor vehicle collision at 645 Westchester Ave. around 2:24 a.m.<\/p>\n
The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad determined an unidentified individual driving an SUV inside the parking lot hit a 27-year-old man before leaving the scene.<\/p>\n
Neighbors set up a memorial in the lobby of the St. Mary’s Parks Houses on Sunday to honor Mclaughlin.<\/p>\n
Loved ones claimed they know the victim and identified him as Marcus Mclaughlin.<\/p>\n
“We were just at my little brother, baby shower. Just having fun, cherishing the moments,” said neighbor Chase Bands.<\/p>\n
The evening of celebration turned into tragedy as the family now mourns the loss of a friend, son, and father.<\/p>\n
“He told his kids last night like, ‘go to bed. Call me in the morning when you wake up,'” said Mclaughlin’s aunt-in-law, Lisa Davanzo. “To wake up and not be able to speak or see your father, that’s mad devastating.”<\/p>\n
Police had not confirmed the identity of the person killed in the hit-and-run as of Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Police urge anyone who knows anything to contact the Crime Stoppers Hotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a father of three was killed in a hit-and-run early Sunday morning at a NYCHA building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9189,473,745,32307,9,24,63,103,5928,14765,6399,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-127254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-fatal-hit-and-run","10":"tag-hit-and-run","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-melrose","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-pedestrian","18":"tag-pedestrian-struck","19":"tag-police-investigation","20":"tag-the-bronx","21":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","22":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}