Homecrest Man Arrested For Fatal Hit-And-Run In Lower East Side

Homecrest resident Danny Lin was arrested on Monday, November 24, after driving away from the scene of a Lower East Side accident in which a pedestrian was struck and killed.

Lin, 24, was driving down Bowery between Rivington Street and Prince Street at approximately 6:50pm when he hit Robert Perry, 57. Cops say Lin dashed off in his 2001 BMW, making it less than half a block before losing control and crashing into a fire hydrant at Stanton Street.

Perry died of his injuries.

DNAinfo reports:

“He was on his back,” witness Indio Bryan, 35, said of the victim.

“One of the ambulance ladies was pumping his chest, but he wasn’t moving. They put him on a stretcher, but he was lifeless. You could tell he was gone.”

Police said Lin was going “at least double the new 25 mph speed limit,” according to the New York Post.

Lin was arrested at the scene and charged with criminally negligent homicide, the outlet reports.