May 2, 2012 12:12 PM
The paths of two people who drive a lot—a taxi driver and an unemployed woman who said she likes to spend her days “driving in circles”—crossed violently nearly two weeks ago in a Hampton Bays parking lot, after Southampton Town Police said a third party intervened in a “road rage” incident involving the pair.
By the end of the afternoon of April 21, the taxi driver, Robert Levasseur, 53, of Riverhead had been airlifted to the hospital, and the person who police say assaulted him, 27-year-old Hampton Bays resident Kenneth J. Tofty-Forrest, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor.
By this week, the picture grew graver.
Mr. Levasseur died from his injuries at Stony Brook University Medical Center last Thursday, April 26, after being in a coma, police said. They said he died... more
By the end of the afternoon of April 21, the taxi driver, Robert Levasseur, 53, of Riverhead had been airlifted to the hospital, and the person who police say assaulted him, 27-year-old Hampton Bays resident Kenneth J. Tofty-Forrest, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor.
By this week, the picture grew graver.
Mr. Levasseur died from his injuries at Stony Brook University Medical Center last Thursday, April 26, after being in a coma, police said. They said he died... more
