{"id":328084,"date":"2026-08-24T02:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328084\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:08:42","slug":"news-12-bronx-delivery-worker-killed-in-brooklyn-hit-and-run-as-cyclist-deaths-surge-across-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328084\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Delivery Worker Killed In Brooklyn Hit And Run As Cyclist Deaths Surge Across Nyc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 40-year-old delivery worker who came to America with a bike and a dream was killed Thursday night after police say a driver struck him before they fled the scene in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mamadou Diallo came to the U.S. from Guinea three years ago with the hope to build a better life and support his family back home. His best friend, Abdoulaye Barry, says Diallo was just a mile from his home in Flatlands when a driver struck him on East 54th Street and Avenue I.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI\u2019m very, very sad. My heart is broke,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the impact sent Diallo flying into a parked car. The driver kept driving and left Diallo to die in the street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Barry says Diallo had been working as a DoorDash delivery driver to provide for his family.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThe American dream is hard. You want to work. You want to get money for family, for yourself,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Barry, who also works as a delivery driver, says he is now too afraid to do the job.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI can\u2019t do delivery. I can\u2019t do it, because I\u2019m afraid. I can\u2019t do delivery anymore,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Diallo\u2019s death comes amid <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/news12.com\/three-bicyclists-killed-in-3-days-as-hit-and-run-drivers-remain-at-large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a deadly week for cyclists<\/a> across New York City.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say 29-year-old <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/police-identify-woman-killed-in-cypress-hill-hit-and-run\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paulina Tec Choc<\/a> was run over by a pickup truck Tuesday in Cypress Hills while stopped on a bike.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">That same night in the Bronx, 51-year-old <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/one-killed-another-injured-in-chaotic-hunts-point-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angelo Camera<\/a>, a father of five, was killed while riding his bike home from work. Police say the driver ran a red light.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Diallo is now the third cyclist killed in a hit-and-run crash across the city this week.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cLife is really valuable. It\u2019s hard to lose it just like that,\u201d a neighbor said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Barry says he wants justice for his friend and for Diallo\u2019s family in Guinea.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI want justice for Mamadou. Everybody in Africa, his family wants justice for Mamadou,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Activists are expected to gather Wednesday at City Hall Park to call attention to cyclist safety and what they say is a 70% spike in cyclist fatalities compared with this time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old delivery worker who came to America with a bike and a dream was killed Thursday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-328084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328084","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=328084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}