Ysemny Ramos' husband finally told his three children that their mother (and stepmother) died. Ramos, who was three months pregnant, was killed on Friday when a Gristede's delivery van jumped a curb in Midtown and slammed into her. The Daily News reports that, according to the criminal complaint, the driver Keston Brown "told investigators he had had four beers and a shot of cognac before he got behind the wheel of the van" on Friday afternoon.
Also injured in the crash was Ramos' coworker Tassia Katsiambianis, who was run over by the van and whose elbow was fractured. She said to WABC 7, "I'm blessed to have known [Ramos]. I'm lost over the fact she's gone. I don't know how to go back to work and look at her desk." Brown was charged with manslaughter and DWI, but his lawyer claimed the van had a history of mechanical problems—"the car locked, and when the car locked it began to veer to the right."
While the outrage of a pregnant mother of three being seems like an opportunity for the Manhattan DA's office to seek justice, recently Gotham Gazette looked various cases of drivers getting off completely or with slight sentences15-day sentence for a drunk driver). Her husband Renaldo told the News, "If [Brown] walks away, it doesn't matter. If he stays in there forever, it doesn't matter. If they bury him in jail, it doesn't matter. If someone slits his throat on his way out of there, it doesn't matter. It doesn't bring her back."
