8-Year-Old Brooklyn Girl Killed by SUV in Front of Her Home

The victim’s home near Ditmas Park. Photo via Google Maps

A young girl was killed by a large Toyota SUV while crossing the street in front of her house in Flatbush, Brooklyn, late Wednesday afternoon, police said. The victim has since been identified as 8-year-old Jadann Williams.

According to the NYPD, Williams lived at 462 East 22nd Street, near Ditmas Avenue.

When police responded to a 5:10 p.m. call of a pedestrian struck near that location, they said they found her ”lying on the ground with severe head trauma.”

Williams was rushed to Kings County Hospital in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, where she was pronounced dead.

An NYPD investigation has determined that the 35-year-old man driving the SUV was traveling southbound on East 22nd when he “struck the victim as she attempted to cross East 22nd Street from the east side to the west.”

In other words, Williams was trying to walk back to her home on the west side of the street.

“The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and the NYPD’s Highway Collision Investigation Squad will continue with the investigation,” the NYPD said in a statement.