Defendant Allegedly Fled While Onlookers Attempted To Alert Her
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx woman has been indicted for Leaving the Scene of an Incident Without Reporting and related charges for driving over a man who fell in front of her car and driving away with his body under her car.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant allegedly drove her car over the victim who had just fallen, and then after looking under her vehicle, where the man was pinned, she allegedly drove away without reporting what happened to emergency responders. Her alleged actions are egregious and show a lack of humanity.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Timiko Young, 45, of Davidson Avenue, the Bronx, was arraigned on Leaving the Scene of an Incident Without Reporting, first-degree Reckless Endangerment, and second-degree Reckless Endangerment by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Audrey Stone. Bail was set at $5,000 cash/$10,000 bond/$10,000 partially secured bond at 10%. She is due back in court on October 29, 2025.
According to the investigation, on October 28, 2023, at 5:24 p.m. the defendant filled her Lincoln sedan with gas at the Citgo Station on Jerome Avenue, just north of McClellan Street and got back into the vehicle. Shortly after, Jose Galan, 60, walked in front of her car and fell. Young allegedly drove over Galan, slowly dragging his body to the exit of the gas station where she allegedly got out of her car, looked under it, and then got back into the driver’s seat and proceeded across Edward L. Grant Highway for at least 950 feet. She stopped in a bicycle lane and Fire Department and EMS responders extracted Galan’s lifeless body from underneath the car. The defendant claimed she just purchased the car and that it was not registered or insured.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Keith Solomon of the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad for his work on the case.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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