A speeding driver has been charged with vehicular homicide after striking and killing a woman crossing a Newark intersection on an electric scooter last week.
Paulo A. Gomes, Jr. hit the 35-year-old woman when he drove through a red light at about 1:10 p.m. Thursday, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday.
The scooter rider — Newark resident Marilyn Belkis Reyes Borja — was starting to cross north to Blanchard Street at the Y-intersection with Ferry Street and Raymond Boulevard when Gomes’ eastbound Dodge Charger hit her…