{"id":141201,"date":"2020-12-24T23:49:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yonkers-pd-trying-to-determine-why-driver-fled-cops-before-fatal-crash\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T23:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T20:49:49","slug":"yonkers-pd-trying-to-determine-why-driver-fled-cops-before-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yonkers-pd-trying-to-determine-why-driver-fled-cops-before-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yonkers PD trying to determine why driver fled cops before fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yonkers PD trying to determine why driver fled cops before fatal crash<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The career criminal who caused a horrific Yonkers crash that killed four teenagers and himself by fleeing cops would have \u201cmore than likely\u201d gotten off with just a warning if he had just pulled over, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Detective Lt. Dean Politopoulos told lohud.com<\/a> Thursday that police still haven\u2019t figured out why Devon Haywood fled cops after officers on patrol saw his 2009 Infiniti sedan driving erratically and tried to pull him over Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Police have not found anything illegal in Haywood\u2019s vehicle \u2014 and won\u2019t know if he was drunk until a toxicology report is completed by the Westchester County coroner, the outlet said.<\/p>\n

Politopoulos said the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Cops tried to pull Haywood over just after 9:20 p.m., but he sped off, according to police.<\/p>\n

He slammed into a silver 2006 Nissan sedan at the intersection of Culver Street, splitting the car in two and killing all four 18-year-olds inside \u2014 Brandon Sierra, Randy Brisbane, Tamari Watkins, and Anthony Cruz.<\/p>\n

Haywood was taken to Jacobi Hospital Medical Center, where he died.<\/p>\n

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Yonkers crash victims (clockwise from top left); Brandon Sierra, Randy Brisbane, Anthony Cruz and Tamari Watkins<\/figcaption>
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Records show that Haywood has two open criminal cases in Mount Vernon \u2014 a weapons possession and menacing case and a separate aggravated harassment case, both stemming from a Nov. 19 arrest.<\/p>\n

Haywood, who authorities said was nicknamed \u201cTelz,\u201d was also sentenced to four years in federal prison in 2007 after pleading guilty to drug sale charges. <\/p>\n

Politopoulos said the officers who attempted to pull Haywood over were \u201cplaced off-duty as per internal procedures and will be interviewed by internal affairs, lohud said.<\/p>\n

However, Yonkers police said in a statement that officers were not engaged in a high-speed chase with Haywood prior to the crash.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur officers are trained to assess every situation and in this case disengaged and did not pursue to avoid this exact outcome,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe sector car was app<\/a>roximately 15 seconds behind and not in emergency mode.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surveillance video posted by police on Facebook<\/a> Wednesday shows Haywood\u2019s vehicle racing down Riverdale Avenue with a Yonkers squad car well behind at a slower speed.<\/p>\n

Haywood\u2019s family declined to speak to The Post on Thursday, as did the grieving families of the four men killed in the crash.<\/p>\n

Mourners held a vigil for the four men late Wednesday. <\/p>\n

On Thursday, at least three memorials had sprung up for the victims \u2014 two of them at the scene of the deadly crash. <\/p>\n

Hundreds of candles marked the scene of the vigil.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Yonkers PD trying to determine why driver fled cops before fatal crash” The career criminal who caused a horrific Yonkers crash that killed four teenagers and himself by fleeing cops would have \u201cmore than likely\u201d gotten off with just a warning if he had just pulled over, police said Thursday. Detective Lt. Dean Politopoulos told…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/yonkers-crash-28.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[87636,71042,72973],"class_list":["post-141201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-24-20","tag-car-crashes","tag-yonkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}