The wrong-way Greenwich Village driver who allegedly struck and killed a Massachusetts transplant late last year – months before her planned wedding – has been arrested on a homicide charge, cops said.
Gary Levinson, 62, was picked up Tuesday morning and charged with criminally negligent homicide and reckless driving in connection to the Nov. 6 crash that killed Valerie Schoeck, 27, police said.
Schoeck was crossing Morton Street at the Seventh Avenue South intersection just after 8:30 a.m. when Levinson, driving a 2020 GMC Savanna van, allegedly rammed into her while making a left turn, authorities and sources said.
The young woman – originally from Cambridge but living in the West Village – was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, but could not be saved.
Levinson, who lived in the East Village, remained at the scene and was not initially charged.
But a further investigation determined he was driving the wrong way in traffic when he hit Schoeck, who was walking the crosswalk, cops said.
He was arraigned on an indictment in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday and released on his own recognizance, according to prosecutors and online records.
He is due back in court April 8.
Levinson has no previous arrests, according to police.
Schoeck was preparing to get married next summer, according to her family.
“The woman killed is my nephew’s fiancé,” a woman named Carol commented on a 1010 WINS TikTok post at the time of the deadly crash.
“We are all shocked and desperately saddened and in disbelief. Her name is Valerie. She was to be married in June. There are no words to describe the grief. She was an extraordinary gorgeous young lady. Thank you for your prayers.”
Schoeck’s fiancé, Ross Barlow, declined to speak to a Post reporter who visited her apartment in November.
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