By Michael V. Cusenza
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Friday that Ravindra Dharamjit has been indicted for allegedly killing a 67-year-old pedestrian on Christmas Day 2019.
Dharamjit, 26, of South Ozone Park, was arraigned last week on a seven-count indictment on charges of manslaughter in the second degree, criminally negligent homicide, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, failing to obey passing safety markers, driving in excess of the maximum speed limit and operating a vehicle at unreasonable speed.
Courtesy of NYPD
Security footage in South Ozone Park shows the car that struck and killed Ainsley Dalrymple.
According to the charges:
On Dec. 25, 2019, at approximately 9:28 p.m., Ainsley Dalrymple, a father of four from Hempstead, was attempting to cross Rockaway Boulevard between 113th Street and 114th The defendant, allegedly operating Toyota Tundra pickup truck, was traveling at approximately 74 miles per hour, in a 25 mile an hour zone, when he struck Dalrymple.
The 67-year-old man was transported to a local hospital with severe head trauma, body and lower torso trauma, and succumbed to his injuries.
After the collision, the defendant allegedly drove through a steady red light at Rockaway Boulevard and Linden Boulevard, traveled on the wrong side of the road and fled the scene.
The defendant allegedly left the United States on Jan. 9, 2020, on a one-way ticket from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Guyana.
District Attorney Katz’s Extraditions Unit worked closely with the U.S. Marshals to locate Dharamjit in Guyana and return him to New York so that he could be held to answer the charges filed against him.
“The defendant is accused of driving 74 miles an hour – nearly three times the legal speed limit – when he struck and killed Ainsley Dalrymple. Rather than stop the vehicle and render aid, the defendant allegedly continued speeding through a busy intersection and later fled the country on a one-way ticket to Guyana,” Katz said. “My office and our police partners never give up on cases and today we arraigned this defendant, nearly five years after the fatal crash.”
Ainsley Dalrymple’s niece, Jenelle Robinson, set up a crowdfunding page on GoFundMe.com on behalf of Ainsley’s wife, Juliet Dalrymple. As of Wednesday afternoon it has raised more than $5,255. The goal is $20,000.
Photo Courtesy of Dalrymple family
Victim Ainsley Dalrymple resided in Hempstead, L.I.
Dalrymple leaves behind a wife, four children, seven grandchildren, mother, three siblings and a host of family and friends.
“Thank you so much for your heartfelt words of comfort and generous donations to the wife and family of Ainsley,” the family wrote. “We sincerely appreciate it.”
If convicted, Dharamjit faces up to 15 years in prison.
