A southeast Queens man is facing 25 years to life in prison after he was convicted by a jury of murder, assault and other related charges for a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a mom on Mother’s Day 2022 on a South Jamaica dead-end street.

Roosevelt Rose, of 89th Avenue in Jamaica , was found guilty on July 31 in Queens Supreme Court after the jury deliberated for just two hours before reaching the verdict in the killing of 49-year-old Florence Ngwu, a mother of four, who was struck outside her home in a crash that was witnessed by her daughter.

According to the charges and trial testimony, on the morning of Sunday, May 8, 2022, Rose was driving a stolen white 2019 Ford F-550 pickup truck on 120th Avenue. The vehicle belonged to a construction company, and Rose had never dri

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