COUNTY POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN SAW MILL PARKWAY HIT AND RUN FATAL ACCIDENT.

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          WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. From Kieran O’Leary, Westchester County Police. September 6, 2016

Westchester County Police arrested a Yonkers man last night and charged him with a felony in connection to a fatal hit-and-run accident that occurred earlier Monday on the Saw Mill River Parkway.

Junior Silverio-Ventura, 19, of Groshon Avenue is charged with Leaving the Scene of a Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident, a felony.  He was held overnight at county police headquarters in Hawthorne and will be arraigned this morning in Yonkers City Court.

The accident occurred about 2:50 a.m. Monday on the northbound Saw Mill River Parkway near McLean Avenue in Yonkers. A Nissan Sentra that had a flat tire and was stopped in the roadway was rear-ended by an Acura TSX. The occupants of the Acura abandoned that vehicle and got into another car, also an Acura TSX, and fled the scene.

Westchester County Police detectives were able to identify the persons involved in the incident and charged Silverio-Ventura last night with being the driver of the Acura that rear-ended the Nissan Sentra.  The Yonkers Police Department assisted in the investigation.

Zachary Dunn, 18, of Yonkers, the driver of the Sentra, was fatally injured in the collision. His passenger suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Commissioner George N. Longworth said the investigation was continuing and additional charges were possible. He thanked the Yonkers police for its assistance.

Anyone who has information about the incident is asked to call Westchester County Police at 914-864-7701. All calls are confidential.

 

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