Police have arrested the driver of a white box truck accused of a fatal hit-and-run in Brooklyn Friday morning.
Victim Marco Gallardo Tirado, 59, was crossing DeKalb Ave. midblock near Wyckoff Ave. in Bushwick when the truck driver struck him around 9:38 a.m., cops said.
Medics rushed him to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center located just two blocks away from where he was struck. Gallardo died at the hospital, police said.
The truck was last seen heading northeast on DeKalb Ave., cops said.
A bloodstain was spotted about 10 feet away from the crosswalk on DeKalb Ave. along with a pair of glasses, a sneaker and a medical foot cast.
Using the vehicle’s U.S. Department of Transportation number, which is required on commercial vehicles that travel between states, members of the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad managed to identify the company that owned the truck.
Cops showed up at the Park Slope, Brooklyn, headquarters of the company — about 5 miles away from the crash — where they identified Lennis Escalona Luna as the employee assigned to the truck.
Luna’s boss asked him to return to base, where cops took him into custody without incident. It was not immediately clear if he knew he had struck someone with the vehicle.
Luna, 42, was charged with two violations — failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care — cops said. He’s expected to show up in court in the next few weeks to answer the charges.
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