Brooklyn Man Arrested, Accused of Mowing Down 6-Year-Old Boy, Leaving Scene: NYPD

What to Know

  • Surveillance video from a nearby electronics and cellphone store shows the minivan running a red light before hitting the child
  • The driver appears to get out and look at the vehicle -- and then gets back in and leaves the scene
  • It's not clear if the driver knew he had hit anyone because the father of the hit child had already picked him up and run for help

Police say they've arrested a Brooklyn man in last month's hit-and-run of a 6-year-old boy that left the child with shoulder fractures and a dislocated hip, authorities and family say. 

Armando Mino, 53, of Midwood, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on charges of assault and leaving the scene of an accident, police say.

The boy's father, Jose Amendano, told NBC 4 New York he was crossing the street in Borough Park with his two young sons the afternoon of Aug. 24 when a minivan barreled through the intersection at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street, hitting 6-year-old Luis. 

Surveillance video from a nearby cellphone store showed the minivan, which had Taxi & Limousine Commission license plates, running a red light, then hitting and rolling over the child. 

Jose Amendano told NBC 4 in Spanish Wednesday he was in complete shock. His first thought was to rush to his son's side and pick him off the ground. Meanwhile, the driver took off.

The boy was taken to Maimonides Hospital. He's now recovering at home and has to undergo physical therapy.

"I'd say to the driver, you shouldn't have done that. People don't even treat animals that way," Amendano said in Spanish. 

A spokesman for the TLC said that while the minivan was a properly licensed taxi, Mino was not a licensed TLC driver. 

"That's why we're so stringent about bases checking the license statuses of drivers who want to work with them," said spokesman Allan Fromberg. 

Attorney information for Mino wasn't immediately available. There was no answer at his home Wednesday. 

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