"Nearly every day since Elvin Sanchez's wife died a couple of months ago after a long battle with diabetes, he could be found at the home of the elderly couple in the apartment next door, grabbing a meal and talking about the love of his life. Even on the day he died - when Sanchez was fatally struck crossing Linden Blvd. in East New York less than an hour into the near year - his neighbors had dinner on the table later that day"
""He told me the last time [he was here], he's feeling lonely. He misses his wife. He don't have nobody. That's what he told me." Before she heard rumors about her friend's death from other neighbors, she had fixed him a plate. "I had dinner here for him," she said. "I was waiting for him. I called on the telephone, nobody answered." "I'm crying, because that's the only friend my husband got, and me, too," she added."
Elvin Sanchez, 68, had been grieving his wife's recent death from diabetes and frequently visited neighbors for meals and companionship. On New Year's Day, less than an hour into the new year, he was crossing Linden Blvd. in East New York when he was struck by a 2004 Mercury Grand Marquis with Pennsylvania plates. The impact sent him onto the car's hood. The driver stopped briefly and then fled the scene, according to prosecutors. Sanchez crossed against the pedestrian signal and was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital, where he died less than six hours later. Police arrested 70-year-old Anselm Okeke the same day; Okeke admitted to striking Sanchez and said he "got scared."
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