NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Police are questioning a person of interest in last week’s hit-and-run in the Bronx that left a 3-year-old girl with a fractured skull, and sources say he's expected to be charged in the case.
The person being questioned is a man in his 60s who is hospitalized, the sources said Thursday, adding he'll likely be charged when discharged.
Last week, the NYPD released surveillance images of a man who they believe struck the young girl with a moped last Friday afternoon and left the scene.
The girl was walking down steps outside a building at Holland and Burke avenues in the Williamsbridge section around 1 p.m. when the moped rider struck her and then dragged her, police said.
He stopped briefly but then fled when he saw the severity of her injuries, the girl’s mother Mariel Rojas, told WABC-TV.
“He fell,” the girl’s mother, Mariel Rojas, said. “Then he got off the scooter and walked toward us but when he saw her face bleeding, that's when he left.”
EMS transported her to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi with a fractured skull and is now recovering.