{"id":161648,"date":"2026-03-12T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161648\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:07:08","slug":"queens-woman-killed-by-hit-run-driver-was-crossing-street-to-grab-coffee-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161648\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens woman killed by hit-run driver was crossing street to grab coffee: daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queens mother had just stepped out of a Social Security office \u2014 where she and her husband were applying to get out of a shelter and into their own apartment \u2014 to grab a coffee when she was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver, her daughter said.<\/p>\n

Suzanne Schmieder, 58, had just arrived at the Social Security Administration building<\/a> in Jamaica about 3:00 p.m. Wednesday when she told her husband she was going to grab a coffee nearby.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she crossed the street to get the coffee, that\u2019s when it happened,\u201d said Sydney Schmieder, the victim\u2019s only child. \u201cMy dad went upstairs and he didn\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suzanne was crossing Jamaica Ave. when a driver in a dark-colored sedan headed west on Jamaica Ave. struck her and sped off, cops said. The driver has not been caught.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disgusting,\u201d Sydney said of the driver. \u201cI hope that their day will come and that justice will be served. I do believe in karma and I think that they will get their karma.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SuzanneSuzanne Schmieder with her daughter, Sydney Schmieder, at Sydney\u2019s NYU Tisch graduation party in 2022.<\/p>\n

The daughter said she and her father hope Suzanne felt no pain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said she was showing no signs of life and they tried to resuscitate her,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen they got to the hospital she was brought into trauma (unit) and they couldn\u2019t do anything so she was pronounced dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suzanne and her husband had been living in a Queens shelter for two months after being evicted from their apartment. They were in the process of trying to get a rental voucher from Social Security, their daughter said.<\/p>\n

Sydney spoke to her mother on the phone just two hours before the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe sounded great. She sounded so good,\u201d the daughter said, getting choked up. \u201cWe\u2019ve had times where I\u2019ve spoken to her and we would fight a lot. So for that to be the last conversation, I\u2019m just really grateful, because it was a really good one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suzanne was from Rosedale and lived in Queens her whole life. She was an animal lover and was mourning the recent death of her Yorkshire Terrier named Noodles.<\/p>\n

\"SuzanneSuzanne Schmieder, center, with her husband and daughter, Sydney Schmieder, in 2022.<\/p>\n

Suzanne picked up different jobs through the years, working in a pet store at one point and serving at Lenny\u2019s Clam Bar<\/a> in Howard Beach for several years.<\/p>\n

When Sydney later did her own stint as a server, her mother showed her all the tricks.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was great at [serving],\u201d Sydney said. \u201cShe would help me. She\u2019d be like, \u2018Okay this is what you have to do,\u2019 and she would tell me how to write things down and practice with me when I was learning how to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The daughter said her mother loved her \u201cvery deeply\u201d and did \u201ceverything she could for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unable to afford a proper burial, the victim\u2019s husband and daughter have created a GoFundMe<\/a> to help pay for services.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a good person. She had her troubles in life,\u201d Sydney said. \u201cShe was tough. She didn\u2019t take no BS. She would fight so hard for anyone she cared for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just hope she\u2019s at peace,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens mother had just stepped out of a Social Security office \u2014 where she and her husband…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-161648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161648","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=161648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}