Driver Charged After Jerome Avenue Pedestrian Death
A Feb. 13, 2022 crash record recorded a 60-year-old pedestrian killed on Jerome Avenue, and police later charged Steven Castillo with leaving the scene after they said he hit Antonio Martin near Featherbed Lane.
What We Know
A city crash record logged a 60-year-old pedestrian killed on Jerome Avenue in Morris Heights just before 7 p.m. on Feb. 13, 2022. The Daily News first reported that police said a 21-year-old BMW driver hit the man and stayed at the scene. A later Daily News report identified the pedestrian as Antonio Martin and said police accused Steven Castillo, 26, of hitting Martin in a Honda Accord, leaving before officers arrived, and causing a chain-reaction crash in which a second driver in a black BMW also hit Martin. Police charged Castillo with leaving the scene of a fatal crash.
Police later described a chain-reaction crash
The official crash record places the fatal crash on Jerome Avenue at 6:58 p.m. on Feb. 13, 2022, with one pedestrian killed and two sedans listed in the collision.
The Daily News first reported that police said a 21-year-old driver in a black BMW sedan hit the 60-year-old man near Featherbed Lane and stayed at the scene. In a later report, the paper said police identified the pedestrian as Antonio Martin and accused Steven Castillo of hitting him first in a Honda Accord, leaving before police arrived, and triggering a chain-reaction crash in which the BMW driver also hit Martin.
Antonio Martin died at the scene
Police identified the pedestrian as Antonio Martin, 60. The Daily News reported that Martin lived at a homeless shelter in Hunts Point, about two miles from where he was killed.
The official crash record lists the person killed as a 60-year-old male pedestrian at an intersection.
The crash happened near Jerome Avenue and Featherbed Lane
The official record lists the crash on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. The Daily News placed the scene near Featherbed Lane in Morris Heights, and reported that Martin died there after the collision.
A driver was charged weeks later
The Daily News reported that the BMW driver stayed at the scene. Police said they used surveillance video to determine what happened, arrested Castillo on March 2, and charged him with leaving the scene of a fatal crash.