A 28-year-old nurse was struck and killed in a hit-and-run in Brooklyn, and police are now hoping surveillance video will help track down the driver.<\/p>\n
Police said the crash happened Saturday morning in Sunset Park at 3rd Avenue and 55th Street, where an out-of-control Cadillac slammed into the woman and then took off.<\/p>\n
The woman was identified as Jiayi Zheng, a nurse at NYU Langone Brooklyn, according to police.<\/p>\n
“She hit the beam that holds the highway \u2026 that\u2019s how hard the car hit her and so that it\u2019s just terrible,” co-worker Juan Rivera said.<\/p>\n
State Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn) said the car that hit her was speeding down the road and ran a red light.<\/p>\n
Colleagues said Zheng was heading home from a hospital shift when she was struck \u2014 and then rushed back to the same hospital, but as a patient.<\/p>\n
“She was a float nurse so she would go around to different units. She was so fun always smiling, even in the worst situation,” co-worker Foram Ravil said.<\/p>\n
Rivera said the circumstances have been difficult for colleagues. “She wanted to go home and she never made it home that\u2019s what\u2019s terrible about it.”<\/p>\n
“Everyone\u2019s devastated. It\u2019s the worst,” Ravil said.<\/p>\n
Several people noted the intersection of 3rd Ave. and 55th St. is especially dangerous, with speeding cars and drivers who are not paying attention to pedestrians.<\/p>\n
“The drivers are really aggressive here in Sunset Park and it seems like even if you are looking the drivers here are really aggressive” a nearby bodega worker said.<\/p>\n
NYU Langone said in a statement:<\/p>\n
“Our nurses play an essential role in caring for others with compassion and dedication, and this loss is being felt across our entire community.”<\/p>\n
Ravil said Zheng will be remembered by those who worked with her.<\/p>\n
“She was amazing. I will miss her so much,” Ravil said.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC New York. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC New York journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 28-year-old nurse was struck and killed in a hit-and-run in Brooklyn, and police are now hoping surveillance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-333572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333572","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=333572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}