A heinous hit-and-run driver killed a beloved Brooklyn mom and left her daughter, a second-grade teacher, clinging to life by plowing into the pair as they walked home from a store, police said yesterday.
Cops found the suspected death car – a badly damaged red Kia – abandoned a block away from Saturday night’s carnage on Nostrand Avenue between avenues S and R in Sheepshead Bay.
Police spoke to the owner of the car, which had a shattered windshield. Both of its airbags had deployed and it bore a license plate from another vehicle.
The owner said her boyfriend had her car on Saturday night, cops said. Neither her name nor her boyfriend’s was released. No arrests were made.
The victims were identified as Emily Felzin, 26, and her mother, Jane, 55, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
“It’s a tragedy – they were great people,” said the co-op board president of the Nostrand Avenue building where the daughter lived with her mom and dad.
“Some driver with lead in his right foot killed someone,” he added. He asked not to be named.
Emily Felzin was in critical condition at Kings County Hospital, where distraught relatives gathered yesterday.
Her dad, Leon Felzin, had been at work at the time of the crash and later learned about what happened to his wife and daughter from detectives, a neighbor said. He had to be hospitalized upon hearing the news, sources said.
“They’re really nice people,” neighbor Eric Sherman said of the family. “They’re quiet. They go about their business.”
According to police and neighbors, the two victims had just left their car at a garage across from their building and were walking home when the southbound car barreled into them.
“I heard two women talking, then I heard screeching tires,” witness Joanne LaBella said.
“I knew right away the lady was dead.”
Neighbor Michael Pannone said the car was ripping down Nostrand at up to 80 mph when it hit the women.