Victoria nicodemus

"These things are 6,000 pound missiles, and they destroy people's lives."

Driver Marlon Sewell has been charged with felony manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

Victoria Nicodemus's family petitioned the DA's office for a grand jury last month.

Victoria Nicodemus was killed in December by a driver who struck her while she was driving on the sidewalk.

According to the judge, "There are no allegations of the defendant recklessly driving."

"An example has to be made at some point, when a driver decides to not hit a bus but instead hit a person."

An unlicensed driver who killed a pedestrian after jumping the curb in Fort Greene on Sunday night has been charged only with a pair of misdemeanors.

The victim was an art curator who had been out with her boyfriend.