{"id":306154,"date":"2026-07-26T22:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306154\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:49:24","slug":"man-dies-from-head-trauma-following-confrontation-over-belt-parkway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306154\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies from head trauma following confrontation over Belt Parkway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 47-year-old man is dead of severe head trauma following a confrontation over a car crash on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/07\/09\/nyc-bmw-driver-in-fatal-belt-parkway-crash-was-swerving-to-avoid-motorcyclist-friend-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belt Parkway<\/a> in Queens early Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Police responding to an assault in progress found Crisaine Dockery unconscious on the Belt Parkway at Farmers Blvd. at about 1:15 a.m., cops said. A second man, 39, suffered minor injuries to his arm, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"47yr old Crisanie Dockery, who was inside a vehicle traveling eastbound on the Belt Parkway just west of Exit 21-B for Farmers Boulevard, said vehicle having been involved in a minor collision, was rendered unconscious and unresponsive after someone from the other involved vehicle struck him in the head, allegedly with a baseball bat, causing severe head trauma before fleeing the scene in Queens on Sunday July 26, 2026. 0949. Crisanie was rushed to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. A 39yr old man suffered minor injuries to the arm at the same location. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" height=\"352\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TNY-P25-20260726-101624.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9161471\" \/>Police responding to an assault in progress found Crisaine Dockery unconscious on the Belt Parkway at Farmers Blvd. at about 1:15 a.m., cops said. A second man, 39, suffered minor injuries to his arm, police said. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Medics took Dockery, of Springfield Gardens, to <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica Hospital,<\/a> but he couldn\u2019t be saved. An NYPD spokeswoman couldn\u2019t say Sunday how he sustained his injuries, but police sources said he was involved in a crash before he was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Police are referring to his death as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"47yr old Crisanie Dockery, who was inside a vehicle traveling eastbound on the Belt Parkway just west of Exit 21-B for Farmers Boulevard, said vehicle having been involved in a minor collision, was rendered unconscious and unresponsive after someone from the other involved vehicle struck him in the head, allegedly with a baseball bat, causing severe head trauma before fleeing the scene in Queens on Sunday July 26, 2026. 0949. Crisanie was rushed to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. A 39yr old man suffered minor injuries to the arm at the same location. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"5994\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TNY-P14-20260726-100911.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9161465\" \/>Resuscitation bag refuse is located at the scene where police found Crisaine Dockery unconscious on the Belt Parkway in Queens. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Cops were looking for two people who fled the scene, one of whom wore a black tracksuit with a stripe on the pants.<\/p>\n<p>Cops have made no arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old man is dead of severe head trauma following a confrontation over a car crash on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,122,265],"class_list":["post-306154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","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-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306154","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=306154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}