BROOKLYN — The NYPD is looking to identify three women who were seen getting into the car that struck and killed DJ Jinx Paul before driving away in Brooklyn last week, officials said.
Police released photos Wednesday of the women, who were witnessed entering the black four-door sedan prior to the collision that killed the popular Spanish music DJ as he was crossing Jamaica and Sheffield avenues around 4 a.m on Dec. 19.
NYPD officials previously said that the hit-and-run driver might have been a woman, but later arrested a man for the crime. Kevin Ozoria, 27 of Washington Heights, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death and tampering with physical evidence on Friday after he turned himself in.
But the Brooklyn District Attorney dropped the charges against Ozoria shortly after, citing insufficient evidence to prosecute him for the crash, according to a law enforcement source.
DJ Jinx Paul — whose real name was Jean Paul Guerrero — worked for Mega 97.9, and had just left a gig working at a club in East New York when he was struck and killed, according to the station.
"He was the soul of our radio station," station manager Eric Garcia previously said. "Beloved by everybody."
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
