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New York Police Charge Man Over ‘Gone Girl’ Actress Death

Actress Lisa Banes is seen during the Sundance Film Festival in January 2015 in Utah. (Larry Busacca GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File)

 

 

New York police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the two-wheeler hit-and-run death of “Gone Girl” actress Lisa Banes, a force spokesman said Friday.

Brian Boyd, 26, was apprehended on Thursday and charged with failing to yield to a pedestrian and leaving the scene of a deadly accident, the spokesman told AFP.

Banes, who was visiting New York from Los Angeles, suffered a head trauma in the June 4 accident in Manhattan. She died in hospital ten days later.

The TV, Broadway and film actress was struck after Boyd allegedly ran a red light while Banes was attempting to cross the street near the Lincoln Center, a performing arts venue, on the Upper West Side.

The New York Police Department have yet to determine whether the suspect was riding an e-scooter or a motorcycle.

Banes’ wife, Kathryn Kranhold, had appealed for witnesses to find the driver.

Apart from the 2014 hit “Gone Girl,” Banes starred alongside Tom Cruise in the 1988 romantic comedy “Cocktail.”

Nebianet Usaini

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