Results tagged “busdepot”

The family of the 22-year-old mentally disabled man abandoned on a bus for 17 hours spoke out yesterday. Edward Rivera, who suffers from cerebral palsy and cannot communicate, was found freezing in the bus, parked in the bus depot, and the bus matron Linda Hockaday was arrested for reckless endangerment. Rivera's mother said, "I was shocked because [Hockaday] was excellent to him...I was in denial at first because she was so good to Edward. He bonded with her, which never happened before...I would like to ask her what happened."

The bus matron who knowingly left a mentally disabled man on a bus overnight was arrested . And what's more, Rivera had been sitting right behind the driver.

The 22-year-old man who was shot in Brooklyn last weekend, an incident that left a gruesome mess at the bus depot on Broadway and Roebling, has died. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the altercation leading to the shooting began at Williamsburg's Festa del Giglio, and witnesses say the scuffle resulted in Williamsburg resident Richard Duran getting shot in the face. "The gunmen — who onlookers suspect were gang members — sprinted off," however, the shooter and one other man returned and "picked up an orange traffic cone and threw it at the head of the kid who was shot." This all happened on the same night, and around the same time, as the stabbings in the area last weekend; the police didn't catch the assailants.