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Yonkers Police Department Investigate Fatal Hit-and-Run Accident; 16-Year-Old Archbishop Stepinac High School Student Killed; Suspect Stephen Dolan in Custody!

Yonkers Police Make Arrest in Fatal Hit-and-Run Accident of Local High School Student

Yonkers DPW Worker Under Arrest Stephen Dolan.

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YONKERS, NY — August 5, 2022 — On Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022, at approximately 12:20 AM, members of the Yonkers Police Department responded to the 600 block of McLean Avenue on a report of a scooter operator having been struck by a vehicle. Upon arrival First Responders located a male youth down on the ground with severe head injuries; he was transported to a local area trauma center in critical condition. The vehicle that struck the youth fled the scene. Police cordoned off the area and initiated accident and criminal investigations.

Detectives from the Major Case Squad and Crime Scene Unit, and accident investigators from the Traffic Unit, responded to the scene and interviewed subjects and witnesses, recovered surveillance video, processed forensic evidence, and reconstructed the accident dynamics. Investigation yielded that the youth, a 16-year-old resident of Yonkers, was operating an electric scooter west on McLean Avenue in the eastbound lane; when, opposite the shopping center at ...