Kianna Underwood, who was killed in a horrific hit-and-run in Brooklyn Friday morning, was struck by not one however two drivers — and the primary one was driving on the flawed facet of the road, going in opposition to visitors — police instructed the Every day Information on Saturday.
Initially, cops had been solely figuring out one automobile — described simply as a black sedan — as being concerned, saying it hit the 33-year-old former Nickelodeon star, then dragged her for 2 blocks till her physique got here unfastened from beneath it.
In keeping with new info from police, Underwood was crossing the road within the crosswalk in opposition to a crimson mild on the intersection of Pitkin Ave. and Mom Gaston Blvd. in Brownsville round 6:50 a.m., when she was first struck by the driving force of a Black 2021 Ford Explorer SUV.
The SUV driver was heading westbound with the inexperienced mild on Pitkin Ave. however, whereas attempting to cross one other automobile that was making a proper flip, had veered throughout the double yellow line into an eastbound lane and hit Underwood, cops mentioned.
Underwood could very properly have been blindsided and by no means seen the SUV barreling down on her from the sudden route.
The motive force didn’t keep on the scene.
Moments later, because the petite former actress’s physique lay sprawled on roadway, she was struck once more, this time by the driving force of a black-and-gray sedan, together with her physique then being dragged by the automobile.
Video from cameras at Rainbow 2 Laundry, at Pitkin Ave. close to Osborn St., reveals the sufferer change into dislodged from the sedan greater than two blocks away, her physique rolling out from beneath its wheels because the automobile cruises previous the laundromat.
The sedan driver additionally fled the scene, police mentioned.
The video reveals that after this second driver sped away, a number of folks walked by unfazed, seemingly oblivious to the physique mendacity on the street, although different bystanders ultimately stopped and reached for his or her telephones.
EMS pronounced Underwood lifeless on the scene.
No arrests have been made.
Underwood, who grew up in New York Metropolis, starred in movies and TV reveals within the late ’90s and early 2000s. She was solely 6 years outdated when in 1999 she made her first movie look in “The 24 Hour Girl.”
She was within the first nationwide tour of “Hairspray” as little Inez and appeared in seven episodes of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy present “All That.”
Associates and neighbors recalled Underwood as a sort and gifted younger lady with a ravishing voice who had fallen on exhausting occasions after her years of childhood fame. Individuals who knew her in Brownsville mentioned she was homeless, and that she additionally described herself as homeless.
“She used to mannequin for me when she was 5 and 6 years outdated. I had a modeling company… She was stunning and I simply snapped her up,” mentioned T.C. Jackson, a resident on the Lincoln Homes NYCHA advanced in Harlem, the place Underwood’s household beforehand lived for greater than 25 years.
“After she did two style reveals, she went on to tv. She did TV commercials. She had actual expertise. She did Nickelodeon after which we didn’t see her after that.”
