2 vehicles struck homeless man on New Year's Day, police say
Suffolk County police are looking for two vehicles that they said hit and killed a homeless man in Central Islip early New Year's Day.
Taekwon Campbell, 22, was struck by the two vehicles that were traveling north while he was walking north on Lowell Avenue around 1:30 a.m., police said. The two vehicles stopped and remained at the scene for a short time before driving away, police said in a news release.
Police said the first vehicle to strike Campbell was a black or dark-colored SUV with gray lower body side molding or paint with front-end damage. The second was a gray or light-colored four-door sedan with two or three occupants with possible damage to the undercarriage.
Anyone with information is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS.
Nicholas Spangler is a general assignment reporter and has worked at Newsday since 2010.
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