{"id":372176,"date":"2026-10-13T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372176\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:24:11","slug":"driver-in-fatal-wrong-way-staten-island-crash-charged-with-manslaughter-dwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372176\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver in fatal wrong-way Staten Island crash charged with manslaughter, DWI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Range Rover driver who killed a 66-year-old woman<\/a> in a wrong-way crash on a Staten Island highway has been charged with vehicular manslaughter, cops said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Shannon Theodore, of Somerset, N.J., was arrested Saturday and also charged with driving while intoxicated and refusal to take a breath test, in addition to manslaughter, police said.<\/p>\n

Following her Monday arraignment in Richmond County Criminal Court, Theodore, 36, posted bail, which a judge set at $250,000 cash, records show.<\/p>\n

Theodore\u2019s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Theodore was driving a 2019 Range Rover Velar northbound in a southbound lane of the West Shore Expressway<\/a> around 5:35 a.m. Saturday when near Exit 8 she slammed into a 2025 Kia Seltos being driven south by the victim, Duck Park, cops said.<\/p>\n

A 21-year-old woman driving a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee south in the same lane then collided with both cars.<\/p>\n

Medics pronounced Park, of Todt Hill, dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Theodore, along with the Jeep driver and two passengers in the Jeep, a woman, 21, and a man, 22, were taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where they were in stable condition.<\/p>\n

Park\u2019s husband, Bruce Park, told CBS News<\/a> she was on her routine drive to church in Tottenville when she was killed.<\/p>\n

The Jeep driver, identified as Nathaly Costa, of Sayreville, N.J., was also arrested and hit with charges of driving while intoxicated and driving while ability impaired by alcohol, cops said.<\/p>\n

A judge released Costa without bail at her Monday arraignment, records show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you drink and drive, think about the people,\u201d Park\u2019s husband told CBS. \u201cYou have to have responsibility when you are handling the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Park was a trained nurse in her home country of South Korea, CBS reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe never complained. She was always happy,\u201d Bruce Park said. \u201cShe loved spending time with the church.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know she\u2019s with God right now,\u201d he added. \u201cThat made me calm myself down a little bit. Without saying goodbye to her, it hurts me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Range Rover driver who killed a 66-year-old woman in a wrong-way crash on a Staten Island highway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[137075,137076,44507,136099,9,24,63,558,134,136,135,73121,33400],"class_list":["post-372176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-alcohol-impaired","tag-duck-park","tag-dwi","tag-fatal-car-collision","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-range-rover","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-vehicular-manslaughter","tag-wrong-way-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372176","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=372176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}