Child Suffers Critical Brain Injury in Brooklyn Hit-and-Run Accident

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx)

Accident last Tuesday (May 13^th) in Brooklyn. Akeem Suluki, age 9, was hit by a car – a Dodge Charger – and thrown into the air at around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Macon St. and Reid Ave. in Brooklyn.

At the time he was walking home from elementary school and holding a crossing guard's hand.

Suluki was taken to Kings County Hospital, in critical condition, suffering from head trauma and brain injury. He was on a respirator and also suffered a collapsed lung and several broken and fractured bones.

Driver Shyquan Burns, age 16, fled the scene after the accident but later turned himself in to police. He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a license.

Commentary: How does a 16 year-old boy get a car to drive? Who owned that Dodge Charger? Where were Burns’ parents?