Police are looking for a banged up Volkswagen, which may be connected with a hit-and-run in Springfield Gardens that left one man dead.
The NYPD released video surveillance of a light colored, two-door Volkswagen GTI sedan with damage to the passenger side bumper, an unlit headlight, a caved in windshield and partial roof damage. The car was traveling east on Lansing Avenue to south on Conduit Avenue and was last seen heading east on Sunrise Highway.
Cops found Brooklyn resident Jose Padilla-Argueta heavily bleeding from multiple injuries on August 1 at 230th Place and Lansing Avenue, where EMS pronounced him dead on arrival. Authorities believe Padilla-Argueta’s was struck by a vehicle after a medical examiner studied his body.
Anyone with information in regards to this hit-and-run is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
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