Hit-and-run driver who fatally mowed down NYC gospel drummer in Feb. is finally busted: cops

A hit-and-run SUV driver who fatally mowed down a gospel drummer and “loving father” of a 4-year-old boy in East Willliamsburg in February finally surrendered to police Monday, cops said.

Gregory Ventura, 35, turned himself with a lawyer at a Downtown Brooklyn police precinct around 8:40 a.m. and was charged with criminally negligent homicide for striking Joshua Germain, 31, the early morning of Feb. 15, authorities and sources said.

Germain was crossing Vandervoort Avenue at the Maspeth Avenue intersection around 12:15 a.m. when Ventura, who was behind the wheel of a Nissan Murano, struck him and drove off, police said.

The gravely injured Germain was rushed to the Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he succumbed to his injuries Feb. 20 – his father’s birthday…

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