Press Release

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Malcolm Anglin was arraigned today on charges of murder in the second degree, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting causing death and criminal possession of a weapon. The defendant is accused of intentionally driving into a 55-year-old man in a Breezy Point parking lot in May 2024, after the two were involved in a road rage incident that began on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn.

Victim Thomas McDade suffered traumatic brain injuries and passed away six months after the incident on November 16, 2024. The Medical Examiner determined his death resulted from blunt force trauma to his head sustained in the collision. The defendant was previously indicted on attempted murder and related charges before McDade passed away.

District Attorney Katz said: “As alleged, this defendant turned to violence to settle a senseless dispute with a stranger. He is accused of deliberately slamming his SUV into a man with whom he had argued approximately ten minutes earlier in an apparent road rage incident on a Belt Parkway exit ramp. The grievously injured victim passed away six months after the incident and a grand jury has now indicted Malcolm Anglin for murder. We will seek justice for Thomas McDade and his loved ones.”

Anglin, 32, of Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, was arraigned before Supreme Court Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant on an indictment charging him with murder in the second degree, leaving the scene of an accident without reporting causing death and criminal possession of a weapon. Bail was set at $5 million cash, $10 million bond and $20 million partially secured bond and the defendant is due back June 17. If convicted of the top charge, the defendant faces up to 25 years to life in prison

The defendant was originally arrested in June 2024 and indicted in October 2024 on charges of attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting resulting in physical injury. The new indictment supersedes those charges.

District Attorney Katz said that, according to the indictment and court records, on May 13, 2024, at approximately 5 p.m., Anglin was driving a gray Honda CRV on the Belt Parkway when he got into a road rage incident with Thomas McDade, who was driving a green Subaru SUV. The defendant drove on grass along the Belt Parkway, passed McDade on exit 11S and stopped his car on the exit ramp, preventing all other vehicles from moving. Both men exited their vehicles and exchanged words.

After that, Anglin – a Brooklyn resident – followed McDade, who lived in Breezy Point, over the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge and into Breezy Point.

At approximately 5:08 p.m., the victim stopped his vehicle in a parking lot located at Beach 208^th Street and Rockaway Point Boulevard. McDade left his vehicle and approached Anglin’s vehicle on foot. The defendant then allegedly reversed his vehicle, placed his vehicle into drive and drove at the victim at a high rate of speed. McDade was struck by Anglin’s car, thrown into the air, and landed on the back of his head.

Anglin fled the location and later returned to his home in Brooklyn. The defendant’s CRV was recovered by members of the NYPD that evening at the defendant’s residence with a cracked windshield and a dent on the hood.

After an investigation, the defendant surrendered to officers at the 100^th Precinct on June 19, 2024.

The victim was transported to a local hospital with a skull fracture and significant brain bleed. He was placed on a ventilator. On November 16, 2024, McDade passed away due to the complications of the traumatic brain injuries associated with the injuries he suffered in the incident.

Assistant District Attorneys Kanella Georgopoulos of District Attorney Katz’s Homicide Bureau, Abigail Neuviller of the Vehicular Homicide Unit, and Jennifer Leung of Felony Trial Bureau IV,  are prosecuting the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Jonathan Selkowe, Chief of the Vehicular Homicide Unit, John Kosinski, Homicide Bureau Chief, and Karen Ross, Deputy Chief, and under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Shawn Clark.