A forty year old woman from St. Albans, Queens was killed Sunday night in a hit-and-run accident. Toyia Jones was struck around 9:30PM at the corner of 127th Ave. & Merrick Blvd., only a few blocks from her home. When officers from the 113th arrived she was unconscious, later pronounced dead at Queens Hospital Center.
Amanda Mullen

A Queens woman was killed in a hit-and-run accident Sunday night, cops said.

Toyia Jones, 40, was struck at the intersection of 127th Ave. and Merrick Blvd., a few blocks from her home in St. Albans, just before 9:30 p.m.

She was unconscious when officers from the 113th Precinct arrived at the scene, police said, and she died at Queens Hospital Center.

Witnesses described the vehicle as a maroon van. The driver has not been found and the investigation is continuing.

“We’re going to find him, that van driver who did this,” vowed Tonyia Mobley, the victim’s twin sister.

“She was a really strong person,” Mobley added. “She always had her door open for anyone.”

Jones’ daughter, Michelene Digirolomo, 20, was fatally shot outside the South Jamaica Houses in Queens on Aug. 13, sending Jones into a spiral of grief.

“She just started getting her life back together,” said neighbor Camille Poux. “I don’t think she was the same after her daughter died.”

“I’m so shocked right now,” added Poux, 33, a nurse. “She had a good heart.”

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