They search for a suspect in running over a man to his death in Brooklyn – NBC New York (47)

NEW YORK – New York City Police are on the trail of the driver who allegedly ran over a Hispanic sanitation worker before fleeing the scene, authorities said.

The incident occurred Saturday morning in the Williamsburg neighborhood. According to the uniformed, the driver of a car Honda Odyssey 2005 It would have hit Ángel Aguilar-Duran, a 52-year-old Ecuadorian, around 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, almost a block from the highway Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

The victim, according to authorities, was guiding his partner to back up the garbage collection vehicle they were working on when he was suddenly run over.

The occupants of the Honda fled the scene, police said.

A witness was the one who called 9-1-1 to come to help Durán after the impact and also said that it was a woman who was driving the car and there was a passenger.

Aguilar-Durán was taken to Bellevue Hospital with head and body injuries and was pronounced dead.

“He was a very pleasant, hard-working person who dedicated himself to his family, to work alone and even watched over his brother who lived with him,” a friend of the victim told Telemundo 47.

The Honda was found abandoned nearby and its occupants were gone, police said.

Cogent Waste Solutions, the company where Angel worked, issued a statement confirming that the victim was working on a collection route at the time of the incident.

“Angel was loved by all those fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to spend time with him. Our condolences, thoughts and prayers go out to his family,” the statement read.

The company said a reward would be set for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible.

No arrests have been made and an investigation is underway.

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