Police said they\u2019re looking for a driver who allegedly struck and killed a Bronx man in the borough over the weekend and fled the scene.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a 911 call about a crash at Boston Road and East 222nd Street in Williamsbridge around 12:15 a.m. Saturday, according to NYPD officials. They learned the driver of a 2025 BMW M8 was going east when the driver struck the man, who was crossing East 222nd Street from north to south, officials said.<\/p>\n
Police said the driver then slammed into a nearby telephone pole. One of the car\u2019s passengers, a 28-year-old man, sustained minor injuries. The driver escaped and the NYPD has not yet announced any arrests in the case.<\/p>\n
Officials identified the pedestrian as neighborhood resident Shariq Bryant, 27, and said he was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital. He lived about a 10-minute walk from the crash site, police said.<\/p>\n
An online fundraiser for Bryant\u2019s funeral costs described him as a \u201cwarm, caring and deeply loving soul\u201d who \u201chad a way of making people feel seen, valued and supported.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city recorded 190 traffic deaths through Nov. 30 this year, down 19% from the same period last year, NYPD data<\/a> shows. Just over 100 of those deaths involved pedestrians. In the 47th Precinct<\/a>, which includes Williamsbridge, there were four traffic deaths this year through November, down one from the same point in 2024.<\/p>\n This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said they\u2019re looking for a driver who allegedly struck and killed a Bronx man in the borough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-64313","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\/64313","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=64313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}