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‘EVERYONE
LOVED HER’
Driver fatally
strikes senior
walking home
from church
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
A driver hit and killed a senior
while backing into the
driveway of his Marine Park
home on March 6, police said.
The 49-year-old motorist
struck 85-year-old Stella
Clinton with his Toyota
Highlander at 4:30 pm, as she
walked past the driveway
of his Avenue S home near
Brown Street on the way to
her Gerritsen Avenue home,
cops said.
The man fatally struck
Clinton as she headed home
from Ash Wednesday service
at Avenue S’s Good Shepherd
Church, where she was a parishioner,
according to her
daughter, Jessica Clinton.
“She was well known
around Marine Park and
Good Shepherd school,” her
daughter said. “Everyone
loved Stella.”
Paramedics rushed Clinton,
who sustained head
trauma, to Kings County
Hospital, where doctors pronounced
her dead, according
to authorities,TRAGIC: A driver hit and killed Stella Clinton when he backed into her on March 6 while attempting to pull who said the
into the driveway of his Marine Park home. Jessica Clinton Continued on page 12
Cop headed
to prison for
beating man
in Midwood
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
One of New York’s Finest will
spend as many as seven years
behind bars after a jury convicted
him of brutally beating
another man with his gun and
handcuffs during a fi t of road
rage in Midwood last year.
Jurors on March 5 found
Offi cer Michael Baror guilty
of felony assault, weaponspossession,
and other charges,
according to Brooklyn’s top
prosecutor, who called the
cop’s behavior especially egregious
given his mandate to
serve and protect locals.
“The fact that he is a
trained police offi cer makes
his behavior even more disturbing,”
said Eric Gonzalez.
“There is no place on our
streets for road rage.”
Baror was off duty and behind
the wheel of his personal
Jeep Cherokee equipped with
illegal lights and sirens on New
Year’s Day in 2018, when he began
fl ashing his high beams at
another car before rear-ending
it at the corner of Avenue N and
Bedford Avenue around 10:30
pm, according to prosecutors .
The cop got out of his car,
pulled out his pistol, and hit
the other driver with it, before
repeatedly striking the
29-year-old man in the face
with his handcuffs, then driving
off, Gonzalez said.
But the victim gave chase,
speeding after Baror as each
ran multiple red lights while
the man’s girlfriend called 911
amid the pursuit, which ended
when the two cars collided
and Baror fl ed before police
arrived, according to prosecutors.
Following the incident,
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