Brian McGurk, allegedly killed heroic Staten Island grandmother
There’s a hit-and-run victim story that autoplays. Second from the bottom.
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A San Jose man told police he intentionally drove his Acura across double yellow lines, accelerated and plowed directly into two pedestrians crossing a Sunnyvale street, killing one and leaving the other in a medically induced coma, according to police and court documents.
Brian Rathjen, 45, was arraigned Wednesday on one count of murder stemming from the death of Edgar Quiroz, 59, who was struck Saturday afternoon while walking in a crosswalk.
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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — After spending seven months on the run, U.S. Marshals arrested a man wanted for the hit-and-run accident that permanently injured a good Samaritan.
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PORTLAND — The daughter of a woman struck by a car in a hit-and-run last weekend is pleading for help to find the killer.
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Thetus Fleming Jr. got but a nod from the media when he was killed in a hit-and-run accident on the night of February 18 and, six weeks later, blogger David Cody was asking why.
“Maybe if [the driver] had done this and caused the deaths of 2 little white girls out on Powerline or a Hispanic male on Sample and Military, or a little old white lady on Dixie and 48th Street then he would already be in jail, instead of home on Facebook “CHILLiN”…,” Cody wrote.
On Tuesday, police Chief Pete Sudler took issue with those allegations and asked for patience. “They have worked diligently on this case…(but) these investigations take a lot of time…and provide just 21 days to make a case after documents are filed…” he said. “they will investigate this case and unturn every rock…”
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“I saw images of the sky and the concrete whirl around like in a kaleidoscope, and then I heard all kinds of sounds and realized it was my body making impact with the ground,” said Frank Pavlick.
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Lantana town officials took swift action in firing Police Chief Jeff Tyson less than 24 hours after his arrest in Boca Raton on charges of drunken driving and hit-and-run.
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A judge has refused to dismiss charges against a mentally disabled Beverly man accused of fleeing the scene of a fatal hit-and run accident.
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State Police have charged one of the drivers involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed a wheelchair-bound woman in January.
Police say Tiffany Reeves of Elsmere was southbound on South Market Street in Wilmington at the entrance of the Fairview Inn January 3rd, when she ran into 58-year-old Edith McFarland’s wheelchair as McFarland was crossing the street.
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NORTH BERGEN, N.J. (WABC) — Two weeks to the day after a deadly hit and run in New Jersey, police, family and friends of the victim return to the scene. They’re hoping to come up with clues and new information. On the same night-at the same time-exactly two weeks later. Detectives say they know he’s out there, and they are determined to find him.
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The family of a Staten Island woman killed in a hit-and-run wreck blasted the cowardly driver Friday while hailing their hero matriarch for saving her grandson’s life.
Brian McGurk, who was reportedly speeding before the Thursday night crash, disappeared for three hours after running down Clara Almazo as she walked home from church with her little grandchild.
“I don’t know why he left,” said the dead woman’s weeping brother, Francisco Almazo, at the family’s Staten Island home. “If you have an accident, you don’t leave the scene of that accident.”
McGurk, 40, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and a long beard, said nothing at a Staten Island court hearing.
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PLAINFIELD TWP., Mich.— A family is heartbroken after two prize horses were killed early Friday morning in a hit and run collision. Now, police say they know who the driver who hit the animals is.
The alleged driver, Adam Stephens, said he was driving his car when he hit what he thought was a deer around 5:00 a.m. Friday morning, according to the Kent County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies inspected Stephens’ white Lincoln Towncar and found animal fur embedded in fresh damage, which included heavy front end, windshield and roof damage.
Stephens told deputies alcohol was not a factor in him leaving the scene, and was cited for failure to report an accident/leaving the scene of an accident, a misdemeanor charge.
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MIAMI (CBS4) – Flor Graham wept and clutched a photo of her husband, Miguel Rocafort, at their home in Southwest Miami-Dade Friday, the day after he died, possibly from injuries he received in a hit and run accident last Saturday.
His widow blames the hit and run driver, but also believes the hospital that treated him may have contributed to his death, by putting insurance coverage issues above her husband’s care.
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