Hit-and-run victim, 72, dies of injuries

March 4, 2021 Jaime DeJesus
Hit-and-run victim, 72, dies of injuries
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A 72-year-old man who was hit by a car last month has died of his injuries.

Bay Ridge resident Kamel Mahmoud was hit at 8 p.m. Feb. 15 by a Mercedes-Benz sedan as it made a left turn from Sixth Avenue onto Bay Ridge Parkway. The driver fled the scene.

Mahmoud was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he died Feb. 20.

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No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.

According to the Daily News, Mahmoud was an Egyptian immigrant who arrived in Brooklyn nearly 30 years ago. He was a retired ship’s rigger who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.


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