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A Cypress Hills man was sentenced to prison Tuesday, five years after he killed a cyclist in a hit-and-run. <\/p>\n
File photo courtesy of Getty Images<\/p>\n
A Cypress Hills man who killed a cyclist in a 2021 hit-and-run was sentenced to prison on Tuesday.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
Julio Sandoval, 34, will spend three to six years behind bars after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 15, 2021, Sandoval, driving a sedan, blew through a red light at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Essex Street in Cypress Hills. He was driving 47 miles per hour, per the DA\u2019s office, nearly twice the legal speed limit.<\/p>\n
He struck 56-year-old Jose Ramos, who was riding his bike across Atlantic Avenue in the crosswalk on his way home from work. The impact sent Ramos and the bike flying, but Sandoval did not stop the car.<\/p>\n
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Sandoval hit Ramos at the intersection of Essex Street and Atlantic Avenue. Photo courtesy of Google Maps\/Gerardo Romo, NYC Council Media Unit<\/p>\n
Ramos\u2019 wife, Martha, was only a few steps behind him when the crash occurred. Ramos, who was deaf, had reportedly called Martha and asked her to walk home with him after a late-night shift because he was fearful of walking alone on the infamously-dangerous<\/a> Atlantic Avenue, his family told both Streetsblog<\/a> and the Daily News<\/a> at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police found Ramos unconscious and unresponsive on the pavement, and he was rushed to Interfaith Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead from severe blunt force trauma to the head, neck and body.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sandoval remained on the lam for over a year, and was arrested in January 2023 after a police investigation.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThis defendant showed a callous disregard for public safety by choosing to speed and run a red light, taking the life of a cyclist,\u201d Gonzalez said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s sentence holds him accountable for his reckless actions and reflects our commitment to keeping Brooklyn\u2019s streets safe for all.\u201d<\/p>\n Prosecutors originally hit Sandoval with a litany of charges including criminally negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, reckless driving, and speeding, court records<\/a> show.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sandoval and the DA\u2019s office reached a plea deal wherein Sandoval pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree manslaughter.\n<\/p>\n The crash came a year after the city completed its \u201cGreat Street\u201d project on a long section of Atlantic Avenue from Pennsylvania Avenue to Logan Street. The project was meant to calm traffic and make the street safer. Still, since March 2021, there have been six crashes at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Essex Street, including the one that killed Ramos. At least 11 other people have been injured at the intersection, according to NYC Crash Mapper<\/a>, including ten drivers and one pedestrian.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cypress Hills man was sentenced to prison Tuesday, five years after he killed a cyclist in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[36182,98,5531,21314,100,99,10916,419,16977,5533,65789,65790,9,24,12,370,63,103,646,8098,3209],"class_list":["post-159637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-atlantic-avenue","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-district-attorney","tag-brooklyn-district-attorney-eric-gonzalez","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-supreme-court","tag-courts","tag-cypress-hills","tag-eric-gonzalez","tag-jose-ramos","tag-julio-sandoval","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-and-fire","tag-prison","tag-sentencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159637","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=159637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Brooklyn](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/07062022_PF_Mayor_Town_Hall_081-scaled-1-1.webp.jpeg\")
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Sandoval had showed \u201ccallous disregard\u201d for safety. File photo by Paul Frangipane<\/p>\n