Victim Was Not the Driver Who Collided with Her
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Manhattan woman has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for second-degree Murder for a road rage incident on the Grand Concourse in 2022 that claimed the life of a man.
District Attorney Clark said, “This defendant used her vehicle to hit a man driving a moped who she thought had collided with her car. The victim was sent flying across the Grand Concourse, causing fatal injuries. I hope this sentence will give some sense of peace to the widow and children of this innocent victim.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Tiffany James, 32, of Madison Avenue, West Harlem, was sentenced on March 11, 2026, to 15 years to life in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Tara Collins. The defendant was found guilty by a jury of second-degree Murder on December 18, 2025.
According to the facts introduced at trial, at approximately 10:30 p.m. on July 15, 2022, the defendant was driving her Ford Mustang in the vicinity of East 144th Street and the Grand Concourse when she purposely rammed her car into 51-year-old Xi Zou, who was driving his moped. The defendant had earlier collided with a driver of a different moped in Manhattan and had driven into the Bronx in pursuit of that individual. She thought she had located that moped but it was in fact Zou’s moped and he was not involved in the earlier incident. The force of the impact catapulted Zou across the Grand Concourse and he suffered blunt force trauma. He was transported to NYC Health + Hospitals Lincoln, where he died from his injuries the following day.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Gregory Giancopulos, of the Collision Investigation Squad, Police Officer Matthew Barlow of the 40th Precinct, Police Officer Alexey Skorokhodov of the 42nd Precinct, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Officer Adrian Loughnane and FDNY Paramedics Robert Boardman and Benjamin Briu for their work in the case.
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