NYPD Won’t Acknowledge Eyewitness Accounts in Death of Greenpoint Mom
Manhattan Avenue minutes after the deadly crash. (Image: Greenpoint Gazette)The NYPD continues to dispute eyewitness accounts of the events that preceded the vehicle-on-pedestrian collision that took the life of Violetta Kryzak, a 38-year-old mother and Greenpoint resident.
Despite the statements of three separate eyewitnesses stationed several blocks from one another who claim that at least one police vehicle was following the speeding white mini-van that struck and killed Kryzak, the 94th Precinct’s commanding officer maintains that a police pursuit did not occur.
At a precinct community council meeting last week, Deputy Inspector Dennis Fulton said that he can only go on what witnesses say, but that he has “no indication that [a police-pursuit] happened.”
Streetsblog contacted the NYPD’s Public Information Office for clarification about the contradiction between eyewitness accounts of the day’s events and Deputy Inspector Fulton’s understanding of what occurred. “Everybody’s going to say something,” said a spokesperson.
The family of Violetta Kryzak has secured legal representation. A private investigator hired by the family’s lawyers is conducting interviews and searching for surveillance cameras that may have caught the alleged chase on tape.
The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau also has an investigation underway, said Fulton.
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