FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, May 11, 2026
Brooklyn Man Sentenced to Prison for Fatal Bushwick Hit-Run Crash
Defendant Fled Scene After High-Speed Collision Killed Passenger and
Seriously Injured Three Others
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a Brooklyn man has been sentenced to prison for causing a 2024 fatal hit-and-run crash in Bushwick that killed a 29-year-old man and seriously injured three others before fleeing the scene on foot.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, “This defendant caused a catastrophic crash that killed a man and seriously injured three others, then fled the scene instead of helping the victims he left behind. Hayden Wallace had recently moved to Brooklyn and was already building community here in the city when his life was tragically cut short. I hope today’s sentence brings a measure of justice and closure to his loved ones.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Christopher Seabrook, 29, of Brooklyn. He was sentenced today by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Hecht to up to six years in prison. The defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting on April 16, 2026.
The District Attorney said that, according to the evidence, on January 8, 2024, at approximately 12:45 a.m., the defendant was driving a Kia Sportage at a high rate of speed southbound on Irving Avenue in Bushwick when he crashed into a Toyota Yaris traveling through the intersection at Stockholm Street. The force of the impact spun the Toyota into multiple parked vehicles.
The crash killed 29-year-old Hayden Wallace, who was riding in the right rear passenger seat of the Toyota, and seriously injured the vehicle’s three other occupants. The surviving victims suffered numerous severe injuries, including fractured ribs, fractured clavicles, internal injuries and organ damage that required surgeries and lengthy hospital stays.
Following the collision, the defendant exited the Kia and fled the scene on foot before police and emergency responders arrived, according to the evidence. Video surveillance later tracked the defendant walking to a nearby smoke shop after the collision. He was arrested in February 2025 following an investigation.
The District Attorney thanked Digital Evidence Lab Analyst Zoe Feygin, under the supervision of Unit Chief Jingu Chong, Paralegals Toki Persaud and Sangdoma Sherpa, under the supervision of Supervising Paralegal Jason Martinez, Detective Curt Cunningham of the Collision Investigation Squad of the NYPD and a KCDA Detective Investigator for their assistance on the case.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Alexander Davis of the District Attorney’s Virtual Currency Unit and Leigh Ann Perez, Deputy Bureau Chief of the District Attorney’s Grey Zone Trial Bureau, under the general supervision of Christopher Velez, Deputy Chief of the District Attorney’s Street Safety Bureau, and the overall supervision of Jennifer Nocella, Street Safety Bureau Chief.
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