Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Police Identify Teen Killed on Hempstead Turnpike

Sixteen-year-old boy dies after being struck by a minivan Wednesday night.

Update: April 5, 2012 at 6:48 a.m.

Police have officially identified Anthony D'Alessandro as the 16-year-old boy who was struck and killed as he was crossing Hempstead Turnpike near Division Avenue Wednesday night.

According to detectives, a 61-year-old female was driving a 2011 Chrysler Town & Country minivan westbound on Hempstead Turnpike around 9 p.m. when she struck D'Alessandro. The teen was transported by police department ambulance to a local area hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:50 p.m.

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Homicide and Eighth Squad Detectives report no apparent criminality in connection with this accident and the above mentioned vehicle was impounded from the scene for a brake test and safety inspection.


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