A Breezy Point man who was struck by a hit-and-run driver by a Brooklyn motorist in a road rage incident just two blocks from his home in May succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead on Saturday, Nov. 16, the NYPD announced late last month.
Thomas McDade, 55, on Bayside Avenue in Breezy Point, died after lying in a coma for nearly six months to the day after he was run over on Rockaway Point Boulevard, just blocks from his home. The investigation was reclassified as a homicide.
Malcolm Anglin, 32, of Ocean Parkway in Sheepshead Bay, was arrested on June 19 and booked at the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach. A Queens grand jury indicted him on a slew of charges, including second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and leaving the scene of an incident involving personal injury in October.
An NYPD spokesman said Tuesday that he expects those charges to be upgraded by Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz now that the victim has died.
According to the criminal complaint, on the afternoon of Monday, May 13, an eyewitness was driving on the Belt Parkway at Flatbush Avenue near Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn when she saw a gray Honda CRV driving on the grass on the side of the highway and cutting in front of a green vehicle before both drivers pulled over. Anglin emerged from the Honda and began arguing with McCade, who had exited his car. After the verbal dispute, the two men got back in their vehicles and drove off southbound toward the Gil Hodges-Marine Parkway Bridge over Jamaica Bay to the Rockaways.
Nearly an hour later, the eyewitness told investigators she heard horns honking multiple times and watched the same two vehicles she saw on the Belt Parkway driving at a high rate of speed on Rockaway Point Boulevard and turned north onto Beach 208th Street, where the drivers pulled over. McCade got out of his car and approached the gray SUV with his hands in the air when Anglin suddenly hit the accelerator and allegedly slammed into McCade at a high rate of speed, according to the eyewitness. McCade rolled off the hood of the SUV and struck his head on the pavement while Anglin allegedly sped away from the scene without stopping.
Police from the 100th Precinct found McCade lying on the roadway in a pool of blood. EMS responded to the location and rushed McCade to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn. McCade suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and was on life support with limited brain function. He remained in a coma until he died Nov. 16.
According to the criminal complaint, video surveillance from the Breezy Point security booth captured a gray Honda CRV bearing New York State license plate ESJ4990 driving eastbound on Rockaway Point Boulevard at approximately 5:07 p.m. on May 13. That vehicle is registered to Anglin’s mother who resides in the same home on Ocean Parkway in Sheepshead Bay. The vehicle was later found in a parking lot adjacent to the home with a dent on the front hood and a cracked windshield, according to the criminal complaint.
Investigators were able to track Anglin’s movements on May 13 through cellphone data. A timeline was established showing Anglin’s cell phone was near the intersection of Ocean Parkway and Neptune Avenue just south of the Belt Parkway at 4:36 p.m. At 5:11 the cell phone was just over a mile away from the intersection of Rockaway Point Boulevard and Beach 208th Street, four minutes after Anglin was seen on surveillance video from the Breezy Point security booth driving eastbound on Rockaway Point Boulevard.
There is no such timeline forthcoming from the Queens DA’s Office on whether the charges against Anglin will be upgraded after McCade’s death.
“The defendant was indicted by a grand jury in October and charged with attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting,” a spokesperson from the Queens DA’s Office said. “This remains an active and ongoing investigation and we cannot provide further comment.”
