Crime & Safety

Driver Was Drunk In BK Crash That Killed Her 18-YO Sister: Report

The 18-year-old killed in Friday's Cobble Hill crash left behind a 1-year-old daughter, according to the Daily News.

Two people were charged related to a fatal crash in Cobble Hill Friday.
Two people were charged related to a fatal crash in Cobble Hill Friday. (Google Maps)

COBBLE HILL, NY — The sister of a teen who died in Friday's Cobble Hill crash was driving drunk, according to police and reports.

Iesha Joyner, 32, faces charges for driving while intoxicated related to the fatal crash that killed her sister, Shanti Joyner, 18, according to the NYPD and NY Daily News.

"Life changes very quickly before we know it,” the sisters' mom told the Daily News.

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Shanti Joyner left behind a 1-year-old daughter, according to the Daily News. She had just graduated from Port Richmond High School and was an amazing mother, her mom told the Daily News.

“She was full of life and now all that is gone,” Shanti Joyner's stepdad told the Daily News.

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The red-light-running driver of the Mercedes Benz that crashed into the Joyner sisters, Kashawn Croswell, 25, faces homicide and manslaughter charges related to the crash, police said.

And it's not Croswell's first offense — he also faces reckless driving charges in Queens for a July 2 incident, court records show.

On Friday, the Joyner sisters were driving home from a late shift at a Brooklyn bar in a Honda about 3:25 a.m. when a Mercedes Benz ran through a red light, crashing into the sisters' car on Court Street at Atlantic Avenue, according to the NYPD and Daily News.

The Benz caught fire, and its driver, Croswell, ran — and now he faces charges for fleeing a fatal crash, police said.

Three others were injured in the crash, including Iesha Joyner, and rushed to an area hospital in stable condition, police said.

The Benz driver was likely speeding, according to witnesses and police.

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