New York Attorney General Letitia James’ Office of Special Investigations (OSI) launched a probe into a Jackson Heights fatal collision that killed a woman just steps from her home last month after it was determined that the driver of the vehicle was an off-duty NYPD officer.
On Saturday, April 25, Alba Giraldo, 67, of 92nd Street in Jackson Heights, was walking home just after 8:45 p.m. and crossing 32nd Avenue in a marked crosswalk when a 27-year-old man driving a 2020 Jeep Gladiator traveling westbound on 32nd Avenue made a left-hand turn onto 92nd Street, where he struck the elderly woman. Police from the 115th Precinct a block from the scene responded and found Giraldo lying on the roadway with severe head trauma and was rushed by EMS to Elmhurst Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.
The off-duty cop who was behind the wheel of the Jeep remained on the scene and was later transported by EMS to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in Flushing, where he was listed in stable condition. An NYPD spokesman could not say if the off-duty cop was assigned to the 115th Precinct. Giraldo succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead on Thursday, April 28. There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD’s Highway District Collision Investigation Squad…