NYPD: 21-Year-Old Fordham Grad Killed By Hit-And-Run In Manhattan
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A 21-year-old Fordham University graduate was killed during a hit-and-run accident on the West Side of Manhattan.
Police said he was walking near the Lincoln Center campus when a driver hit him and kept going at the intersection of Broadway and West 61st Street.
The victim, identified as Noah Goldstein, was trying to cross Broadway when police said he was hit by an unknown vehicle. The car then drove off, heading north on Broadway, police said. Goldstein was pronounced dead at the scene.
Whether the driver clearly saw the recent college grad before killing him is unclear, but police said whoever ran over Goldstein committed a cowardly and criminal act by leaving the scene, CBS2's Dave Carlin reported.
Fordham University law student Kyle Fitzpatrick remembers Goldstein from time they spent together in different dorm rooms in the same residence hall. Goldstein had every reason to celebrate rich and colorful days ahead as he had just graduated Fordham's theatre program at Lincoln Center.
He had also put his carpentry, painting and lighting skills to use as set designer for a soon to open play at IRT Theater on Christopher Street. He also worked at the Ars Nova theater company Manhattan's XL Nightclub.
"We all woke up to this email by our president and I couldn't believe what I was reading. He just graduated that's horrible," sophomore Raya Goonetilleke said.
"It is a terrible blow to lose someone so young and full of promise. We have reached out to Goldstein's family, and of course will do everything we can to support them in their hour of grief," Fordham University President Joseph McShane wrote in an email.
Investigators continue to search for a suspect.
