{"id":214926,"date":"2026-04-30T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:40:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-jersey-man-arrested-in-box-truck-hit-and-run-that-killed-woman-in-bushwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214926\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New Jersey Man Arrested In Box Truck Hit And Run That Killed Woman In Bushwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A New Jersey man was arrested in connection with a box truck hit-and-run that killed a woman in Bushwick, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">William Cruz is accused of striking 29-year-old Jenny Maribel Chacho Sanchez with the truck just before 8:30 a.m. on April 17 as she was crossing Gates Avenue, just a block from her home.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Cruz, 49, of Carteret, was driving the truck northbound on Saint Nicholas Street when he made a left-hand turn onto Gates Avenue, where Chacho Sanchez was crossing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Surveillance footage obtained by News 12 shows the white and green truck strike Chacho Sanchez and continue driving down Gates Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Emergency personnel rushed Chacho Sanchez to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where she died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say that Cruz only returned to the scene after they contacted him to tell him what happened.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Community members who stopped by a growing memorial at the intersection told News 12 that Chacho Sanchez was originally from Ecuador and was on her way to work at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Cruz is charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Jersey man was arrested in connection with a box truck hit-and-run that killed a woman in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-214926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214926","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=214926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}