Overview
- Trevor Lloyd Samuels, 68, was struck in a marked crosswalk at 168th Street and 93rd Avenue in Jamaica shortly after 6:30 p.m. Friday.
- Police identified the rider as 26-year-old Yunior Buleje Rodriguez, who was traveling west on 93rd Avenue on a 2025 Zhilong moped when he hit Samuels.
- Samuels suffered a severe head injury and was pronounced dead shortly after at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
- Rodriguez was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, with his Queens Criminal Court arraignment pending.
- NYPD data list 101 people fatally struck by motor vehicles citywide so far this year, a 10% decrease from 113 at this time last year.