SUNSET PARK — The off-duty police officer who was killed in a hit-and-run while riding his motorcycle on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) on Aug. 27 was a Sunset Park native.

Officer Jay Peña, 30, was driving a Yamaha motorcycle on the BQE at 8:30 a.m. when he collided with a 2020 freightliner box truck near exit 27 to Atlantic Avenue, allegedly driven by Carlos Almanzar Toribio, also 30. Peña was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police officers, friends and family paid their respects to Officer Jay Peña at Clavin Funeral Home in Bay Ridge Sept. 3. Photo courtesy of NYC Police Benevolent Association

Toribio drove away after the collision, according to the NYPD. He was later arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, operating an unregistered vehicl

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