Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Brooklyn Cyclist Killed by SUV Identified as Alejandro Moran-Marin

SUV veered into oncoming traffic on Fourth Avenue.

The man brutally killed in an SUV-on-bicycle collision on July 13 near the Barclays Center has been identified as 35-year-old Alejandro Moran-Marin.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene of a 7 a.m. multiple-car crash on Fourth Avenue.

“He was found lying on the road with trauma to the body,” says an NYPD spokesperson.

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It took officers a while to identify him, police say, because he ”didn’t have any form of valid ID on him” and because no family members immediately came forward.

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CBS correspondent Meg Baker said on Twitter that pieces of the victim‘s bicycle were still stuck in the SUV‘s hubcap by Monday afternoon.

She also noticed his sneaker and a bike tire more than a block from the final crash site.


Crash witnesses told reporters at the scene that the northbound Honda SUV first rear-ended an Uber vehicle, then veered into oncoming traffic along Fourth Avenue.

The SUV driver “crossed the yellow line into the southbound lane” and hit the bicycle head-on, police tell Patch.

“There was a person on a bike and he just flew over,” one witness said in an interview with CBS.

The out-of-control vehicle then struck a second car and crashed into a metal barrier. Aside from Moran-Marin, three others were injured — one seriously.

Police are looking into the possibility that the SUV driver, identified as Claudio Rodriguez, suffered some kind of seizure.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams held an awareness event on Tuesday. The community leader reportedly biked to the crash site outside Barclays Center and declared: “If we don’t fast-track green streets in the city, we’ll continue to see tragedies like these.”

If you knew Moran-Marin and would like to share photos or memories, please contact the author at simone.wilson@patch.com.


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