Brooklyn Man Dead and Stepson Seriously Injured by DWI Driver
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October 12, 2009
Jorge Cortes, 26, was driving a Pontiac Grand Prix south on 21st Avenue in Bensonhurst when he ran a red light at 86th Street about 2:25 a.m. Saturday morning and struck a Nissan Maxima, police said. The two cars then hit a third vehicle, an unoccupied Chevrolet van parked near the intersection.
The driver of the Nissan, Eugene Malinsky, 48, of Brooklyn, was taken to Coney Island Hospital and pronounced dead soon after the accident. Malinsky’s 19-year-old stepson, who was a passenger in the Nissan, is in stable condition at Lutheran Medical Center, relatives said. Cortes, of Lanham, MD, also a patient at Lutheran Medical Center, remains in critical condition.
Some witnesses told police that Cortes passed through a steady red light and T-boned Malinsky’s Nissan. Cortes was charged with driving while intoxicated, manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Eugene Malinsky, a Ukrainian man who immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union more than 20 years ago, was diagnosed with cancer after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant released radioactivity in 1986. His cancer was currently in remission, relatives said.
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