{"id":185663,"date":"2026-04-04T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:17:41","slug":"nyc-woman-idd-as-mom-of-2-after-being-struck-and-killed-by-ambulance-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185663\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC woman ID&#8217;d as mom of 2 after being struck and killed by ambulance in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brooklyn nurse was publicly identified Saturday as the victim struck and killed by an ambulance in Midwood, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The ambulance, operated by Maimonides Medical Center, was making a left turn from Avenue O onto Ocean Avenue when it hit Cherry Cayetano Sobel, 44, on Thursday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver didn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.61273486;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38992309\" width=\"362\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2013-ford-ambulance-operated-42-125007162.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry Cayetano Sobel, a 44-year-old woman, in a social media memorial photo.\" class=\"wp-image-38992309\"  \/>The Maimonides Medical Center ambulance struck Cherry Cayetano Sobel, 44, about a mile and a half from her Midwood home. Facebook \/ Ajomol Joshy<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano Sobel, who lived a mile and a half from where she was struck, was rushed to Maimonides but couldn\u2019t be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives don\u2019t believe the driver realized they hit someone.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital suspended the ambulance crew pending the outcome of an investigation, according to a statement from officials.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maimonides family is devastated by this tragic loss,\u201d the statement reads. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur EMT staff who were involved in the incident have been suspended pending the outcome of the NYPD\u2019s investigation. Our heart goes out to the victim\u2019s family and friends.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.55151515;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38992314\" width=\"915\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2013-ford-ambulance-operated-42-125006827.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry Cayetano Sobel and her family.\" class=\"wp-image-38992314\"  \/>A post on her Facebook page appears to show her with her husband and two children. Facebook \/ Cherry Cayetano Sobel<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife has a funny way of working out, just when you thought it never will\u2026,\u201d her Facebook profile reads.<\/p>\n<p>In one 2023 post on the site, she featured a photo of an idenfication card with her name on it for The Phoenix\u00a0Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn nurse was publicly identified Saturday as the victim struck and killed by an ambulance in Midwood,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1015,57,9,24,23187,63,4159,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-185663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-deaths","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nurses","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-pedestrians","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185663","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=185663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}