A 77-year-old grandfather was struck and killed by his own car Thursday during an argument with another driver in a Brooklyn parking lot, police and law enforcement officials said.
According to authorities and sources, around 4:30 p.m., Yosif Ronzman got out of a Subaru Forester and confronted a 43-year-old woman in a Nissan Altima in a parking space at Avenue W and Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay. A tragedy occurred.
According to police and officials, when Lontsman tried to get out of the vehicle, which had been left unattended, the vehicle began to roll forward, hitting him and hitting a Nissan before coming to a stop.
The NYPD said a preliminary investigation revealed that the grandfather, who lived about 1.5 miles from the scene of the crash, remained pinned between the two cars.
Lontsman suffered severe head and body trauma and was unresponsive and unconscious when paramedics arrived at the scene.
He was rushed to New York University Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead.
Officials told The Post that surveillance footage showed Lontzman getting out of his car and confronting the other driver across the parking space.
Lonzman’s grieving son, Mark, also said in an interview Monday that an NYPD officer told him that his father got into an argument over a parking space last week.
“I think it’s very difficult for everyone to accept what is being said,” the son said.
No arrests have been made in this incident.
Mark Lontzman, 50, said his father leaves behind two sons, ages 12 and 7, and two grandchildren. Eight years ago, when his now-deceased wife became unwell, Lontzman cared for her “until her final days.”
“He was a devoted family man,” Mark Lontzman said, describing his father as a selfless man.
“He was always doing things for his family and friends and other people,” Mark Rontzman told the Post.
The family immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union in 1989 in hopes of a better life.
“It’s been a difficult life for all of us,” he said. “My brother and I were still teenagers, and my mother and father were working in this country to build a new life.”
