MANHATTAN — Police are searching for a Bronx woman they believe left a selfless City Hall staffer clinging to life Monday morning after she pushed a friend out of the path of an oncoming car and was run down.
Erinn Phelan, 22, an employee in the mayor's office of volunteerism, was struck by a green Acura on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn early Sunday morning.
The police confimed that the car, which was abandoned near the Atlantic Avenue subway station, is registered to Cindy Jasmin, 31, of the Bronx. They said Jasmin is a person of interest in the case and they are trying to find her for questioning.
Phelan was reportedly declared brain dead at Kings County Hospital and was expected to be taken off a respirator Monday after arrangements were made for organ donation, sources told the New York Post.
Phelan's frend, Alma Guerrero, 23, a former classmate at Brown University, was in stable condition and expected to be released from Kings County Hospital on Monday, according to news reports.
"[Alma] was going to be hit, but her friend pushed her out of the way," Alma Guerrero's father, Fidel Guerrero, 52, of Texas, told the Daily News. "Her friend took the worst of it. Her friend pushed her in order to save her."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly visited with the families of his staffer and her friend at the hospital, according to reports.