Woman Charged In Killing Of Boyfriend
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A woman was arrested on charges of murdering her cyclist boyfriend in a hit-and-run early yesterday morning in Brooklyn, police sources said.
Jeanine Harrington, 25, fled the scene where she struck Jeffrey Moore, 47, with her Nissan Pathfinder at about 6:00 a.m. as he was riding his bike through the intersection at Chauncey Street and Rockaway Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, police said.
Hours later, Ms. Harrington turned herself in to police at the 73rd precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where it was discovered that the victim was her boyfriend, police sources said. Ms. Harrington told investigators that she only meant to scare Moore, police sources said.
Ms. Harrington is being charged with the murder of her former lover, police said.
Ms. Harrington fled the scene where she killed Moore and drove her 2002 model sports-utility-vehicle about six blocks south to Gunther Street, police said. She abandoned the car in front of a home at 25 Gunther St., where police found it shortly after the incident.
Police arrived at the scene where Moore was hit minutes after the incident and rushed him to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
