The cab driver who mowed down a 9-year-old Manhattan boy in January won’t be prosecuted, the Post has learned.
Dana Lerner, the mother of little Cooper Stock, told the Post that District Attorney Cy Vance said that no criminal charges would be filed against cabbie Koffi Komlani, who struck and killed her son on the Upper West Side after he failed to yield in January.
It was not clear why Vance decided not to prosecute, as a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s declined to talk about the case Thursday. But Lerner said she was upset with the decision.
“In what other situation can you kill someone, and get a ticket and a fine?” the devastated mom said. “He was not looking and failed to yield… this guy is getting away with murder.”
Advocacy group Transportation Alternatives blasted Vance’s decision as “unjust and directly counter to the city’s Vision Zero initiative.”
Taxi and Limousine Commission, however, said Thursday, that they will not renew Komanli’s license when it expires July 5 after reviewing his record.
“I experienced a huge sigh of relief,” said Lerner, after learning the news. “I am so glad that they have listened and have made the right choice.”
The hack was given a ticket for failing to yield and three points on his license after the Jan. 10 crash on West 97th Street near West End Avenue, in which Stock was walking hand-in-hand with his dad in a cross walk when he was struck.
Komlani has not driven since the crash, but will be permanently off the road this summer.
Since Stock’s death, Upper West Side Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal has introduced legislation in the child’s memory called Cooper’s Law.
It would give the TLC the power to suspend a driver’s license if they critically injure or kill someone in a crash caused by a traffic safety violation.