{"id":186515,"date":"2026-04-05T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:29:07","slug":"brooklyn-nurse-killed-by-maimonides-ambulance-emts-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186515\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nurse Killed by Maimonides Ambulance; EMTs Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/vinnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-130803.png\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"267\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-05-130803-696x267.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2026-04-05 130803\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 AA 44-year-old nurse was struck and killed by an ambulance in Brooklyn early Thursday, and two emergency medical technicians have been suspended as authorities investigate the incident.<br \/>Police identified the victim as Cherry Cayetano Sobel. She was hit around 6:40 a.m. in the Midwood neighborhood when an ambulance operated by Maimonides Medical Center made a left turn from Avenue O onto Ocean Avenue, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/vinnews.com\/2020\/01\/07\/vin-whatsapp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tJoin our WhatsApp group<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vinnews.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSubscribe to our Daily Roundup Email<\/a>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the driver did not stop after the collision. A bystander called 911, and Sobel was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the driver may not have realized a pedestrian had been struck. No arrests have been made.<br \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2013-ford-ambulance-operated-42-125006827.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" class=\"size-full wp-image-640842\"  \/>A post on her Facebook page appears to show her with her husband and two children.<br \/>Facebook \/ Cherry Cayetano Sobel<br \/>A spokesperson for the hospital said the EMTs involved have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation and expressed condolences to the victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>Sobel is survived by her husband, Jeff, and two young children, according to family members.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said she lived about a mile from the scene. The case remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Follow VINnews for Breaking News Updates<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 AA 44-year-old nurse was struck and killed by an ambulance in Brooklyn early Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-186515","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-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186515","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=186515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}