Brooklyn hit and run leaves 35-year-old woman dead

CANARSIE (WABC) -- A woman was killed in a hit and run in Brooklyn Tuesday morning.

Police say the victim, 35-year-old Sidney Ramsarup, was hit just before 5:30 a.m. at Glenwood Road and East 108th Street in the East New York section.

She was walking along East 108th Street when she was struck by the car, also heading southbound on East 108th Street.

She was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital. where she later died.

The vehicle did not remain at the scene.

The NYPD Collision Investigation Squad is conducting an investigation, and anyone with information is urged to contact police.

"She was actually on her way to see us," said the victim's stepfather Robert Hyman.

Hyman was understandably still reeling from the news that his stepdaughter is dead.

Police believe she had been struck by a hit-and-run driver just blocks from her stepfather's apartment in the Breukelen Houses.

"She was a real nice girl. everybody in the neighborhood loved her," Hyman said.

So far police have few clues beyond a vague description of the vehicle involved: a four-door dark sedan.

Meanwhile friends of the victim, who is known by the nickname India, are still finding it difficult to comprehend that she's gone.

"It's shocking. I can't believe it," said friend Cha Cha Burn.

"I was in downtown Brooklyn when I was getting off the train to come back here, I heard somebody say that India was killed this morning and I was talking to her last night," said another friend, Patrick Davis.