A Brooklyn man is facing multiple charges after a deadly hit-and-run.
Michael McBean, 24, is charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and attempted robbery.
According to the NYPD, McBean struck a stopped car at a light, then hit 56-year-old Yvette Molina, who was trying to get into her parked car, at Pennsylvania and Stanley Avenues in East New York around 7 p.m. Thursday.
Police say the driver tried to steal the woman's car but then got back into his car and sped off, hitting several other cars and injuring at least 10 people.
They also say McBean got out of his car and tried to rob a second car. Police say officers were able to catch up to him as he ran away.
"We were outside, we heard the loud crash sound and then you see all the cars, there's like four cars all crashed into each other, and then the lady was on the ground. And then he got out the car and noticed what he did and was in shock, just running to the other side trying to open people's car doors as they're driving so he could try and get into the car," one witness said. "It was just so crazy."
Molina was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her sister, Amelda Bolt, says Molina was a retired member of the NYPD and a cancer survivor.
"I didn't believe it. I was at my son's house for Thanksgiving. We went straight to Brookdale, and we identified her in the morgue. And that's when I knew it was true," Bolt said. "She was a very very good person. She was a woman of God."
The drivers in the other cars that were hit were also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.