A 25-year-old man was struck and killed by two hit and run drivers early yesterday morning in Brooklyn. Josh Thorne was skateboarding on the pedestrian walkway of Eastern Parkway around 2:30 a.m. when he tried to cross at the Rochester Avenue intersection. Instead he was hit, first by a maroon Mercury minivan going north and then, while he was lying bleeding on the road, by a white Honda or Acura sedan going east. Neither vehicle stopped.
"It threw him into the middle of the street. I saw the guy flying," one witness told the News. "This just ruined my morning. I can't even go to sleep right now. I was about to chase the van so I could see the plates and then here comes another car, a white Acura, and it rolled over him and just kept on going."
Thorne was taken to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead. His family came to view the body yesterday. "He was a free spirit, that was my brother," Thorne's sister Ikesha Thorne told ABC. "You [the drivers of the cars] both are murderers, and I hope they catch you. Even if it's an accident, come forward and say it's an accident."
Police are currently looking for the two drivers who struck Thorne. Anyone with any information is urged to call CrimeStoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
