‘He was the sweetest thing ever’
Family of Hamilton Avenue hit-and-run victim demand justice
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Family members of fatal
hit-and-run victim Imorne
Horton demanded
justice for their lost loved
one at a vigil Friday, after
a driver struck the
Red Hook resident and
left him to die on Hamilton
Avenue.
“I’m hoping that there
will be justice served for
my son and that the person
is apprehended and
will be incarcerated for
killing my child,” said
Horton’s mother, Tasha
Horton, at the March 5
gathering near the scene
near Court Street. “I miss
him dearly. I just hope I
get justice for him.”
The 31-year-old died
after a driver hit him
while he crossed the
busy four-lane avenue at
the Carroll Gardens-Red
Hook border on Feb. 24
around 6:40 pm. The motorist
then fl ed the scene.
Family members remembered
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Horton as a
sweet and kind soul who
was always there.
“He always looked out
for us, protected us as
best as he could,” said his
younger sister Alaywa
Andujar. “He was the
sweetest thing ever. He
didn’t deserve this at
all and I just want whoever
did this to come forward.”
To honor his memory,
Horton’s loved ones set
up a shrine at the small
Cough Triangle park.
The small sitting area is
positioned at the intersection
amid the constant
din of cars and trucks
barreling down the twoway,
eight-lane throughway
and the elevated expressway.
Many relatives could
not fathom how the driver
could leave their loved
one to die in the middle of
the roadway.
“I don’t why anybody
would just leave him
there – seriously,” said
Horton’s brother Shacory
Andujar through tears.
“In broad daylight,
when there’s traffi c how
can he just keep on going,
not even to call 911 and
say, ‘I think I hit someone
or anything,’” added
sister-in-law Nieve Hernandez.
Investigators found
who they believe to be
the driver and took the
person in for questioning
Thursday, but have
yet to make any arrests,
according to a Police Department
spokeswoman.
Horton was the second
fatal hit-and-run in the
borough that day, after
a school bus driver fatally
struck 6-year-old Shimon
Fried outside his S. Fifth
Street home in Williamsburg
at around 8:30 am.
The City Council
was also holding a hearing
that day about a proposed
bill to transfer
oversight of crash investigations
from NYPD to
DOT, after cops made arrests
in less than 1 percent
of cases in 2020. Some 35
people have been injured
in 24 crashes at the intersection
during the past
decade, according to NYC
Crash Mapper.
In response to the
treacherous stretch of
roadway, the Department
of Transportation lowered
the speed limit from
30 to 25 miles-per-hour on
a 1.9 span of Hamilton Avenue
from Luquer to 18th
streets in early 2020, aiming
to calm traffi c on the
eight-lane thoroughfare.
The city previously
studied Hamilton Avenue
as part of a larger
Red Hook transportation
analysis in 2014 and
recommended installing
buffers along the sidewalk,
along with a host of
other improvements, like
better lighting.
Almost seven years
later, the roadway remains
largely unchanged,
and local Councilmember
Brad Lander
said that offi cials had
failed to act before it was
too late.
“The report said we
have to do better, and we
failed, we failed Imorne,”
said the pol. “But we’re
not going to fail his memory.”
Lander and a group of
politicians sent a letter
to DOT Commissioner
Hank Gutman March 4
demanding the agency
make the street safer by
making crossing times
longer, adding speed and
red light cameras, and
implementing the 2014 report’s
recommendations.
A shrine for Imorne Horton, who was killed by a morist at
Hamilton Avenue and Court Street. Photo by Kevin Duggan
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