A 24-year-old driver was arrested for the brutal hit-and-run crash that killed a “loving” grandfather who was catapulted into the air and onto a Brooklyn street last month, police said.
Brian Macoto-Morales, of Homecrest, turned himself in at the 83rd Precinct Thursday morning and was slapped with several charges for allegedly mowing down Segundo Reina-Gaon, 74, as he crossed a Bay Ridge street on Sept. 11, according to police and sources.
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Surveillance footage captured the moment Macoto-Morales’ white SUV slammed into Reina-Gaon — ramming the septuagenarian from the crosswalk into a parked car and then the pavement at Ridge Boulevard and Bay Ridge Avenue around 9 p.m.
The white SUV barreled into him as it sped northbound on Ridge Boulevard, police said.
EMTs rushed Reina-Gaon to NYU Langone Hospital/Brooklyn but he could not be saved.