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Nearly two and a half months after Japanese student Ryo Oyamada was killed by a cop car in Queens, the Oyamada family's attorney says the NYPD still refuses to release any information that might shed light on the 24-year-old's death; now, he and the Oyamadas are suing the city for $8 million, citing gross negligence on the part of the patrol car's driver, and they're demanding the NYPD disclose any surveillance tapes or other evidence they're withholding from the night of the crash.
Oyamada, who lived in Queensbridge at the time of his death, was struck by a patrol car in his neighborhood just after midnight on February 21st; though the NYPD's accident report maintained that the car—which the NYPD says was responding to an emergency call at the Queensbridge projects nearby—was traveling with its emergency lights "engaged", various witnesses reported that the car had neither its lights nor its siren on. Attorney Jeffrey Kim says he believes the NYPD has surveillance video that would confirm whether or not the car's lights were on, in addition to the speed of the car and whether or not Oyamada was jaywalking when he was hit—the accident report alleges that Oyamada was crossing in the middle of the street. But the NYPD has withheld all evidence from the family, and Kim says they will continue to withhold it unless he can obtain it through litigation.