Saturday night, im sure, will forever stay in my memory. 17yearold Brian Rodriguez and 16yearold noll herrera died after a speeding car crashed into the friends walking on the side wake saturday night. Sidewalk saturday night. Paterson driving with a list of violations stacked up was speeding driving down jfk. The car neared 26th street. It veered to a avoid cars stopped at the red light, crossed over the southbound lanes, and mounted the sidewalk, striking three teenagers, the car then drove went airborne and crashed against a wall of 2625 kennedy boulevard. Apartment building. Paterson, making his first appearance in court today facing a long list of charges. Eric paterson was charged with two counts of death by auto one count, assault by auto, degree. He was also charged with speeding, reckless driving, and driving on a suspended license. At this point, the investigation is on going. The Hudson County Prosecutors Office is looking for toxicology tests to tell them if there is anythi
Information as it becomes available. Life in Middlesex County mallory hoff channel 7 Eyewitness News. You can find out latest news alerts on twitter. Some of us woke up to snow this morning. This is what it looks like in amityville suffolk county. Warmer weather is on the way. Amy is outside of the studios on the Upper West Side. Amy . Reporter good morning and good afternoon at the same time. As we go from the snow towards a better afternoon. The battles. Overall the first week of spring looked messy. Snow coming down in the beginning. Couple inches on eastern long island. It is out of here now. We are seeing nice improvements. On the Upper West Side and the sun is peeking through with blue showing up. Nice skies will dominate the rest of the afternoon. 44 degrees with a wind chill right now in the 30s. We had a few 20degree wind chills early on this morning. Now we are taking ten degrees off the thermometer readings. The winds will be brisk from the northwest. That will make it feel
We have a crew on the way, and well keep you posted on this story. And a developing story, another victim in a string of recent slashings, this one involves one of the owners of a Dunkin Donuts in the kingsbridge section of the bronx. Police say that she told a homeless man who had been harassing customers and sleeping to leave. He did, but came back a short while later with a razor blade. The owners face was slashed through a walkup window. The suspect was caught and charges. A not guilty plea today from the man charged with a hit andrun accident that killed an offduty new York City Police officer. Bail is set at dislrs 100,000 for william espinol majilla. He can accused of hitting 25 yearold Vincent Harrison with his suv on the new jersey turnpike on sun. Police say majilla stopped for a moment an then drove off. Well have more on his Court Appearance coming up at 12 30. Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are both one step closer to their partys president ial nomina
The police and the buy ystanders a car came around the corner out of nowhere. Yes, she shoved the stroll era way just in time. So the child was not hurt, liz. But the nanny was dragged at least 20 feet before bystanders got the driver to stop. They all pitched in to lift the car. At first, the nanny couldnt breathe. Witnesses say that she didnt see her. And kept driving her. They had to honk their horn to get her to stop. When my officers arrived, they saw the victim underneath the car with his head protruding from the front of the car. She was turning purple and not breathing. They, with the assistant of some bystanders were able to lift the car for her to breathe. The nannys name couldnt be confirmed, but declined to the driver is distraught over the accident. Theres plenty of heroism to go around in this case. At 5 00, were going to talk to the bystanders who helped lift the car at 5 00 tonight. Live in rockville center, long island, nj burkett. What a tremendous story. In new jerse
Nypd to make sure that everything that is needed is in place. Reporter back live, security has been strong from the department of Homeless Services here regarding the front of this homeless shelter that is still active with as many as 67 people who were living on the floor where this incident took place. Investigators believe that they are looking for one of them and this investigation is underway right now. We will of course keep you posted. For now were live at kips bay josh einiger Eyewitness News. Turning to a possible hate crime attack in brooklyn caught on camera. A man driving a forklift suddenly punched in the face by two teenagers. Eyewitness News Reporter Tim Fleischer talked to the victim and posted this video of the assault on twitter. He is live in Crown Heights. Tim . Reporter and shirley that attack took place here at a1 merchandising. Clearly this attack was and you can see the violent assault right there, hes suddenly punched in the face by one of two teenagers. They c