Man charged on hit and run death

At about 2:30 a.m.  Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 bicyclist Yolanda Yvette Carr was run down and left for dead on Niagara Avenue. Preliminary media reports had a blameful tone, noting she was riding an E-bike, as if it that somehow made it her fault. What would she be doing riding a bike at that hour anyway?

Scant details were released after the crime. Within a few weeks the truth came out: She had been working at Seneca Niagara Casino and was riding home. Like many working people, she could not afford a car.

She was memorialized with a ghost bike at the scene of the crime but not forgotten by the community or Niagara Falls police who doggedly pursued her killer.

Go Bike Buffalo, with the help of the Create a Healthier Niagara Falls coalition, called bullshit on the media from Day 1 because all lives matter.

Now a Falls man, Antoine Bones, 39, has been charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter and leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle accident.

A man of the same name was arrested in 2013 on drug charges over 13 ounces of crack and powder and reported then to be a member of the Bloods according to a Rick Pfeiffer story.  Rob Bennett's story is below.

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By Rob Bennett

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The Niagara Falls Police Traffic Division has made an arrest following a lengthy investigation into a fatal hit and run accident that occured back in August 2024.

The Niagara County District Attorney's Office announced that 39-year Antoine Bones has been charged with Manslaughter in the Second Degree and Leaving the Scene of a Fatal Motor Vehicle Incident Without Reporting.

Bones is charged with recklessly causing the death of 50 year old Yolanda Carr, also of Niagara Falls, in the city on August 5, 2024, by striking and running her over with the vehicle he was driving, and then fleeing the scene.

Around 1:15 a.m. on Monday, August 5, 2024, Niagara Falls Police were alerted to a possible person struck by a vehicle in the area of 22nd Street and Niagara Avenue. A patrol officer arrived on scene and located 50-year old Yolanda Carr laying in the roadway next to a bicycle. She was transported to ECMC but succumbed to her injuries.

On August 15, 2024, NFPD traffic division officers and CID detectives located the vehicle involved, a Chevy Tahoe, in a backyard on Centre Avenue. At the time, the vehicle was towed for further investigation. Accident investigators also conducted two search warrants back in September 2024 as part of the investigation.

Bones arrest is a result of an indictment, which was unsealed Thursday morning when he was arraigned in Niagara County Court. Bones appeared before County Court Judge John Ottaviano. His bail was set at $250,000 cash, $500,000 bond.

The indictment was the result of an extensive investigation by the Niagara Falls Police Department and is being prosecuted by Vehicular Crimes Bureau Chief Christine Savoia and Assistant District Attorney Richelle Kloch.