{"id":333100,"date":"2026-08-30T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333100\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:58:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nurse-dies-after-being-struck-by-cadillac-in-sunset-park-hit-and-run-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333100\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nurse Dies After Being Struck By Cadillac In Sunset Park Hit And Run Sources Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 28-year-old nurse is dead after she was struck by a Cadillac during a hit-and-run in Sunset Park on Saturday morning, police and hospital sources say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The deadly incident happened just after 7:30 a.m. near 55th Street and Third Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Surveillance footage obtained by News 12 shows the Cadillac speeding through the intersection and hitting Jiayi Zheng, sending her flying across the road.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In the video, the car does not appear to slow down as it continues traveling down Third Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says Zheng suffered serious trauma to the head and body.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed her to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where she died, according to police sources.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hospital sources told News 12 that the victim left that same NYU hospital after finishing her overnight shift and was traveling home when she was struck. They say she was a nurse in the medical surgical unit and described her as &#8220;always positive and in a good mood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The driver remains on the run as of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 28-year-old nurse is dead after she was struck by a Cadillac during a hit-and-run in Sunset Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-333100","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\/333100","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=333100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}