NYC’s Streets Got Deadlier In 2020
arrow Jose Contla was killed in late February by a hit-and-run driver in late February. Police have still not made an arrest. Facebook
Before 26-year-old Jose Contla was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Bensonhurst late last February on his way to work, his wife had an unsettling feeling.
“Six months before he passed, all those six months, everything was perfect,” Marisol Contla told Gothamist/WNYC. “One day I told my sister-in-law and my mother-in-law, I’m scared that something may happen to him, because he seems to be perfect.”
Marisol and Jose met when they were 16 and 14 years old, respectively, though initially Jose added two years to his age.