A 30-year-old woman was charged with criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident, and reckless driving in connection with a fatal crash in Brooklyn on Dec. 31, 2024. The victim, Michael Foster, 64, was panhandling and walking in the roadway on Caton Ave. near Flatbush Ave. when a white Audi hit him at high speed around 7:30 p.m. Police said the driver dragged Foster for about half a mile before he became dislodged near Linden Blvd. and Nostrand Ave., and the driver never stopped. Foster died at the scene. The woman pleaded not guilty and was released without bail. She had four prior arrests, and witnesses described Foster as a loner who begged for change.
"Ajahnni Triana was charged with criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident and reckless driving for the crash that claimed the life of Michael Foster on Dec. 31, 2024. She pleaded not guilty at her arraignment and was released without bail, court records show."
"Foster, 64, was panhandling and walking in the roadway on Caton Ave. near Flatbush Ave. in Flatbush when the driver of a white Audi plowed into him at a high speed around 7:30 p.m., according to law enforcement. The Audi driver dragged the victim for a half mile before he became dislodged near Linden Blvd. and Nostrand Ave., police said. Foster died at the scene. The driver never stopped."
"Triana has four prior arrests on record, with charges including criminal mischief, petty larceny, criminal contempt and assault, cops said. She lives in East New York more than four miles from where the collision occurred."
""I saw him at the stop light," Noel Clauson said. "He would go out to the cars and beg for change. That night a car must have come along and hit him." Foster's roommate John Isdore, 54, said Foster "was in a drug rehab program" and was a loner. "He kept to himself and he didn't have any family.""
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