BROOKLYN — A speeding driver fatally hit two pedestrians in Brooklyn early Monday before fleeing the scene on foot, police said.
Investigators said the unidentified driver sped through the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn in a white Acura TL sedan before hitting two men and two parked cars at the intersection of Fulton and Chestnut streets around 12:10 a.m.
Officers and other emergency personnel arrived on the scene and discovered Delman Maldonado, 41, and Israel Turcios, 56, both unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to their bodies, police said.
Police said Maldonado, of Brooklyn, was pronounced dead at the scene while Turcios, also of Brooklyn, died of his injuries at Brookdale Hospital.
A mutual friend of the victims said Maldonado and Turcios were close and had been at a restaurant a couple of blocks from the scene of the fatal crash earlier in the evening.
"They were good friends," Santo Garcia, 54, said. "I left at 8 [p.m.] and they were both still there. It's very sad."
Turcios' devastated son, Frankie Turcios, 31, arrived on the scene of the fatal crash Monday morning.
"He was a happy and friendly person, a good friend," Turcios said, fighting back tears. "I loved my dad and he is no longer with us."
Israel Turcios (left) and Delman Maldonado died after they were both struck by a speeding driver, police said.
Turcios, who spoke in Spanish, said the driver should turn himself in.
"He knows he did something so he'll have to pay," Turcios said.
Turcios, who has two siblings, said his father immigrated from Honduras in 1998 and worked in construction.
Jason Styles, 35, lives nearby and said the fatal crash sounded like "a war going on."
"I heard two big bangs," he said. "I looked out the window and saw three cars piled up. People were screaming, running. It was chaos. It was pretty gruesome."
The driver’s white sedan was still at the scene Monday morning and police said the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad is investigating.
