Driver charged nearly two years after fatal Bronx crash.
Prosecutors allege Timiko Young drove away with Jose Galan pinned beneath her car after a collision recorded at Jerome Avenue and McClellan Street on October 28, 2023, in which one pedestrian was killed.
Approximate reported location.
What We Know
The city record counts one pedestrian among those killed in a crash recorded at Jerome Avenue and McClellan Street on October 28, 2023. Prosecutors later alleged Timiko Young drove over Jose Galan while leaving a Jerome Avenue gas station, stopped to look beneath her sedan, then drove away with him pinned underneath. Initial police accounts said the driver remained at the scene, unlike the later prosecution account.
Prosecutors described a departure after a stop
Prosecutors alleged Young drove over Galan as she pulled out of a Citgo station after he fell in front of her 2013 Lincoln sedan. The Daily News reported that Young and her passenger got out to look beneath the car, then Young drove at least 950 feet along Edward L. Grant Highway before stopping in a bike lane, with Galan still pinned beneath the sedan, according to the district attorney.
Early accounts differ from later allegations
The October 2023 Daily News and Streetsblog reports said police described the driver as remaining at the scene; the Daily News also reported that police suspected no criminality. Both reports said medics took Galan to Lincoln Hospital, where he died.
That differs from the prosecutors' later account that Young left after stopping to look beneath the car. The official record lists southbound travel and driver inattention or distraction as a contributing factor; Streetsblog, citing a preliminary police report, described a left turn from the gas station toward northbound Jerome Avenue.
The city record and the October 2023 Daily News report give Galan's age as 59, while Streetsblog reported 60. The July 2025 Daily News report gave Young's age as 47; Hoodline gave it as 45.
Reports place the collision at nearby points on Jerome Avenue
The city record places the collision at Jerome Avenue and McClellan Street at 5:24 p.m. on October 28, 2023. News accounts instead locate it at a Citgo station near Shakespeare Avenue and give the time as about 5:25 p.m.
Galan's daughter remembered her father
Galan's daughter wrote on Facebook after Young's arrest: "The person who was responsible for his death is finally being held accountable," the Daily News reported.
Young faced charges in 2025
The Daily News reported on July 23, 2025, that Young had been charged the previous day with leaving the scene. Hoodline reported an indictment charging leaving the scene without reporting and first- and second-degree reckless endangerment. It also reported bail of $5,000 cash, $10,000 bond, or a $10,000 partially secured bond at 10 percent.