Crime & Safety
The Bay Shore bicyclist was crossing East Suffolk Avenue when he was hit twice.
A Brentwood man has been charged over the Bay Shore resident's death, but police are still looking for the 2nd driver, the Suffolk DA said.
CENTRAL ISLIP, NY — Suffolk County police have arrested a Brentwood man over the crash that killed a bicyclist in Central Islip last year.
Detectives charged Junior Romero-Delcid, 27, with Leaving the Scene of an Incident Involving a Fatality.
Felix Cesi Oliva Cruz was killed on East Suffolk Avenue Sept. 25. The 65-year-old Bay Shore resident was riding a bicycle northbound across East Suffolk Avenue at Lowell Avenue at about 6:30 a.m. when he was struck by two eastbound vehicles, a dark-colored small SUV and a white sedan, police said. Both vehicles fled eastbound on East Suffolk Avenue.
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Oliva Cruz was taken to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, where he was pronounced dead.
Police allege Romero-Delcid was in a white Honda Civic. The Major Case Unit is still seeking the identity of the driver of the SUV.
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