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# Gerritsen Beach Man Killed, Bensonhurst Man Arrested After Hit-And-Run Accident
- URL: https://bklyner.com/bryan-loughran-michael-casale-hit-run-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2014-06-30T16:20:19.000Z
- Updated: 2014-06-30T15:51:40.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: 13th ave, 2718 gerritsen ave, bryan loughran, cyrus ave, everett ave, #API-Imported

![Loughran (Source: Facebook)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/loughran-585x588.jpg)

Loughran (Source: Facebook)

Bryan Loughran, 32, died early Saturday morning after being struck by a hit-and-run driver on Gerritsen Avenue in Gerritsen Beach.

Police rushed to the scene at 2:45 a.m., outside of Gather Inn Again (2718 Gerritsen Avenue, near Everett Avenue), where they found Loughran with severe trauma to his body. EMS took him to Beth Israel Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Cops determined that Loughran had left the bar and was crossing the street when a white minivan traveling southbound struck him before speeding off. The Daily News [notes ](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/man-killed-hit-and-run-driver-brooklyn-article-1.1847474?ref=bklyner.com)that Loughran was thrown several yards, and the impact smashed the vehicles windshield and ripped out its headlight.

Authorities tracked down the driver, Michael Casale, 51, and cuffed him at approximately 5:00 a.m. He had ditched the car a few blocks away on Frank Court near Cyrus Avenue. Casale lives on 13th Avenue in Bensonhurst, where cops made the arrest.

Casale is facing charges of leaving the scene of a fatal accident and aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle. His prior rap sheet dates back to 1984, with arrests for drug possession, robbery, impersonating a police officer and criminal possession of a weapon.