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York College Open House this Fall!
Sunday, November 10, 12 to 3 PM
COURIER L 40 IFE, NOVEMBER 8-14, 2019
A minivan fatally crushed a biker in Bedford-Stuyvesant late Saturday
night. Photo by Paul Martinka
BY JESSICA PARKS
A motorist struck and
killed a motorcyclist as he
maneuvered down a bike
lane in Bedford-Stuyvesant
on Saturday night.
The driver behind the
wheel of a minivan was turning
left on Ellery Street from
Tompkins Avenue at shortly
before midnight, when he
smashed into the biker —
who was motoring down the
bike lane astride his 2015
Yamaha motorbike — and
pinned him beneath the van,
according to police.
First responders rushed
the unconscious motorcycle
driver to Bellevue Hospital,
where doctors pronounced
him dead, according to police
reports.
No arrests have been
made, and the investigation
remains ongoing, cops said.
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A former homeless shelter
employee has been convicted
of groping three
homeless women in Fort
Greene.
“The victims in this case
are among society’s most
vulnerable people,” said
District Attorney Gonzalez.
“Today’s verdict is a
measure of justice for these
women and holds the defendant
accountable for his
egregious and abusive conduct.”
Clyde Johnson, 56, was
employed as a housing case
worker when he abused the
three residents of the Auburn
Family Shelter — near
Auburn Place and E. Portland
Avenue — in four separate
incidents, according to
the DA’s office.
In April 2017 Johnson
groped a resident while
meeting with her to discuss
her housing situation, according
to authorities.
The following July, Johnson
struck again when he
rubbed up against a shelter
resident’s butt while she
was at a nearby deli — telling
her, “this is a stickup.”
He later molested the same
victim again while both of
them were aboard the B54
bus, prosecutors said.
A month later, Johnson
groped a third victim who
had come to his office to
seek help for her housing
situation, according to Gonzalez’s
office.
A jury convicted Johnson
of three counts of forcible
touching and one count
of third-degree sexual abuse
before Brooklyn Supreme
Court Justice Laura Johnson,
who set his sentencing
for Dec. 16.
Clyde Johnson was convicted of
groping three women living in a
Fort Greene homeless shelter.
Eric Gonzalez
Bed-Stuy smash
Fort Greene homeless shelter
employee convicted in groping spree
Motorcyclist slain in bike lane
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