지난해 뉴욕에서 뺑소니 사고를 냈다가 체포된 한인 노인이 유죄를 인정했다.
스태튼아일랜드검찰국에 따르면 지난 23일 한인 존슨 김(76)씨가 아나스타샤 디에즈(당시 89세)를 차로 쳐 숨지게 하고 달아난 혐의와 관련, 유죄를 인정했다.
형량 선고 공판은 오는 12월11일 진행된다. 김씨는 유죄를 인정함에 따라 5년의 집행 유예, 벌금 5000달러, 면허 영구 취소 등의 처분을 받게 될 것으로 보인다.
김씨는 지난해 4월20일 오후 10시30분쯤 디에즈를 차로 친 뒤 달아났다. 이후 차량 수리를 위해 정비소에 차를 맡겼다가 다음날 체포됐다.



An arrest has been made after an elderly woman coming home from Easter Mass was killed last weekend on Staten Island.

The crash happened on the corner of Bradley and Purdy avenues Saturday night in Meiers Corners.

The 89-year-old victim, Anastasia Diaz, was coming back from Mass with her sisters when they all got off the bus and crossed Bradley Avenue at the crosswalk.

That is when Diaz was struck, while her two sisters witnessed the crash.

Police announced that 74-year-old Johnson Kim was arrested in connection to the crash.

They say they were able to track down Kim after he apparently took his Toyota minivan to a body shop for repairs.

He lives just two miles away from the scene of the crash.

Kim faces charges of leaving accident resulting in death, tampering with physical evidence and leaving an accident with serious injury.