An awful event that happened in Brooklyn on Thursday resulted in the death of a 77-year-old man. Iosif Lontsman sadly passed away as a result of a terrible incident that started as a disagreement with another driver over a parking space.
According to the authorities, Lontsman approached a 43-year-old woman in a Nissan Altima about the parking space at the intersection of Avenue W and Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay after getting out of his Subaru Forester and seemingly forgetting to take it out of gear. The Subaru started to roll forward as he got out, hitting Lontsman before hitting the Nissan.
Based on an initial NYPD investigation, Lontsman was pinned between the vehicles by the force of the incident. Sadly, when first responders arrived, they discovered him unconscious and with serious injuries to his head and body. He was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn but was declared dead.
The moment Losif Lontsman got out of his car to confront the other driver about the parking space was caught on camera. This information, combined with information from an NYPD official, has caused Mark, the grieving son of Lontsman, to believe that a parking dispute was the cause of the tragedy.
Mark said in a recent interview that “it’s incredibly difficult to come to terms with what we’ve been told.”
Fortunately, no one has been taken into custody in relation to the incident.
Mark, fifty, revealed that his father leaves a legacy of devoted family members. Lontsman’s son described his father as a selfless and devoted family man who had nursed his sick wife “until her final days” eight years earlier.
“He was always doing stuff for his family and friends, for other people,” Mark recalled.
In 1989, the Lontsman family left the former Soviet Union in search of a better life in the United States.
“It was a difficult life for all of us,” Mark reflected. “I was still a teenager, as was my brother, so my dad and my mom at the time, they worked to build a new life in this country.”
