Within hours of a deadly hit-and-run on the Upper East Side, police say the driver who allegedly took off was tracked down and arrested.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad you guys caught the driver, and it\u2019s just unfortunate,\u201d Upper East Side resident Denise Gonzalez says.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Investigators say just after 4:30 a.m. on Friday, a tractor-trailer was reversing the wrong way on Lexington Avenue against traffic
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At East 61st Street, police say it struck and killed 44-year-old Terrill Jenkins, who was crossing in a marked crosswalk
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But instead of stopping, police allege the driver kept going, heading south on Lexington
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Hours later, police say they identified the truck and its driver, 33-year-old Vincent Spano of Florida, and took him into custody within the 19th Precinct<\/p>\n
Investigators say just after 4:30 a.m. on Friday, a tractor-trailer was reversing the wrong way on Lexington Avenue against traffic. At East 61st Street, police say it struck 44-year-old Terrill Jenkins, who was crossing in a marked crosswalk.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just as shocked as everybody else hearing about this,\u201d says Isabella, who works nearby.<\/p>\n
But instead of stopping, police allege the driver kept going, heading south on Lexington.<\/p>\n
Jenkins was taken to the hospital where he later died from his injuries, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just sad that it happened today. I walk these streets every day and I take them to school, so it\u2019s a very, very, very busy street,\u201d Gonzalez says.<\/p>\n
Hours later, police say they identified the truck and its driver, 33-year-old Vincent Spano of Florida, and took him into custody within the 19th Precinct.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s now charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and failing to use due care.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m surprised to hear of somebody getting hit that early in the morning because traffic is usually not that bad,\u201d Upper East Side resident Marie Libison says.<\/p>\n
Police say the investigation is ongoing as one family mourns, and a neighborhood is left asking how this could happen at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Within hours of a deadly hit-and-run on the Upper East Side, police say the driver who allegedly took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10015,387,25,303,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,27,200],"class_list":["post-170757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170757","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=170757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}