The hijackers, running away from the police, shot down 5 people: a woman died, her little grandson is in critical condition

Lynn Christopher was returning home from a Brooklyn park, enjoying the last days of her 8-year-old grandson's visit from Atlanta. But suddenly a car thief running from the cops crashed into them both, killing her and chaining the boy to a life support machine. Daily News.

“She shouldn't have died like this,” the victim's son, Marvin Christopher, 49, said on June 26. "She shouldn't have been run over like an animal in the street... Nobody deserves that."

The 67-year-old grandmother was crossing Macon Street at Ralph Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, returning home from nearby Saratoga Park. Around 19:10 on June 25, the driver of a stolen Honda HR-V, running away from the chase, hit a woman and her grandson. They were around the corner from Lyn Christopher's three-story mansion.

The grandson, Jacob Butler, and his 18-year-old sister moved with their mother from their grandmother's home to Atlanta last September. They came to stay with Lyn Christopher for a few weeks and enjoy the summer in New York.

Jacob's sister was a few steps ahead when her brother and grandmother were hit by a car.

Lyn Christopher's eldest daughter, 50-year-old Leslie Christopher, was soon at the scene of the accident.

“I was walking my dog, and then I turned the corner and saw all this commotion,” recalls Leslie Christopher. “And then I see her hat on the street.”

She then saw her 18-year-old niece, who told her what had happened.

“I took my dog ​​and ran to my mom. I crossed the yellow line to get to her. But the cops stopped me. They didn't let me get close to her. … I saw her body on the street. And I can never forget it. I just started screaming and the policeman picked me up and pulled me aside. He said, "There's nothing we can do for her now."

Then she saw how people are working to save her 8-year-old nephew.

“I fell down and just started screaming,” she said. “It all seemed unreal. I felt like I was in a horror movie.”

As a result, she went in an ambulance to the hospital with a seriously injured boy.

Marvin Christopher meanwhile ran to the scene and found his mother's body on the ground under a sheet.

“I saw that the body was covered and I just lost it,” he said. “She was just laying there, covered, and I said, “Why is she still there?” He was told to leave her there because they were investigating.

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Waking up Sunday morning, Marvin returned to the crash site to find his mother's blood on the pavement.

Jacob, 8, hit his head when a car knocked him off his feet. He suffered a severe head injury and underwent several surgeries after medics took him to the Maimonides Medical Center. His mother rushed to the hospital from Atlanta.

“His eyes are moving, which means he has brain activity,” Marvin Christopher said. “His leg is broken, his spleen is damaged, his ribs are broken. He is in a very critical condition. Surgeons removed part of his scalp. He has a scar on his face."

The boy remains in critical condition. He is on a ventilator.

“Now he is fighting for his life,” Assistant NYPD Police Chief Judith Harrison said Saturday night. “He will not be hindered by your prayers.”

Jacob, the son of an FDNY firefighter, is a creative genius, his uncle boasted.

“He can still be him when he gets out,” said Marvin Christopher. “He is into computers and karate.”

The boy liked living in Atlanta because he had his own room. But he was waiting to return to see his grandmother.

Grandmother and grandson were two of the five people hit by an unruly motorist.

81st Precinct cops stopped a Honda HR-V at the corner of Ralph Avenue and Chauncey Street after the cops noticed the car had different numbers. And this is a sign that the car was stolen. According to the cops, there were two men in the HR-V who appeared to be smoking marijuana.

As the police approached, the driver stepped on the gas and sped north along Ralph Avenue at extremely high speeds.

A 28-year-old cyclist was hit by an SUV driver when he swerved into oncoming traffic to pass two cars idling at a traffic light. The rogue driver then crashed into an empty Nissan Pathfinder before hitting Lin Christopher and her grandson.

The driver continued driving, hit a motorist with a Honda Accord before pulling onto a sidewalk near Halsey Street. He then hit a 43-year-old man before crashing into a building five blocks from the car's original stop.

The two occupants of the crashed HR-V abandoned the vehicle and fled. A possible suspect has been taken into custody and questioned, an NYPD spokesman said. But after interrogation he was released.

The cyclist, another pedestrian and the hit motorist were taken to area hospitals where they are expected to recover.

“It seems that (the driver and his accomplice) do not care about human life at all,” Marvin fumed. “Running from the cops is one thing. Get out of your car and run. But don't drive where there are people."

Mayor Adams said on June 25 that the number of car thefts in Precinct 81 had doubled this year. He opposed new bail reform laws that prevent judges from requiring cash bail for suspects accused of stealing cars.

“Some bad people think they can do bad things and get out of jail because we have a bad criminal justice system,” Adams said. “When are we going to connect the dots?”

Marvin Christopher agrees with Adams. But, remembering his mother's knocked down body under the sheet, I would like to see more action and less talk.