Jarrell Green, 27, killed crossing Front Street in Hempstead

A 27-year-old male pedestrian was struck and killed while attempting to cross Front Street in Hempstead Saturday afternoon, Nassau Police said in a news release.

Jarrell Green of Hempstead was crossing from south to north in the vicinity of the West End Professional Building shortly after 4 p.m. when he was struck by a 2004 Honda traveling west on Front Street, police said.

Green, who suffered head trauma, was transported to a hospital where a physician pronounced him dead at 8:32 p.m. The driver of the Honda, a 20-year-old woman, remained at the scene and was not criminally charged, the police said.

He is at least the 24th person killed in a fatal motor vehicle crash on Long Island this summer, according to a Newsday database of crash information released by police. At least 28 fatalities have been reported on Nassau County roadways in 2024, according to the database.

Green was someone who would "give more than they would take," his sister, Jodianne Lumpkin, 28, said Sunday.

"When he did have challenges, it was hard for him to ask for help," said Lumpkin, a resident of Portland, Maine, who grew up in Elmont. 

"He wanted to always give back," she added. "In any way, whether it was financial, or needing a space, or a phone call, he would always make that phone call more encouraging. He would always try to be the uplifting one on that call. He wasn't always looking for something from you."

Her brother was "finding himself," and wanted to eventually start his own business.

"He would see things, as like, there's always going to be a need for certain things, and he would see himself capitalizing on that," Lumpkin said. "He had a lot of ideas, he just wasn't in a place to really focus on those things, because he was very much just kind of getting on his feet."

The investigation is ongoing.

With Joshua Needelman

By Grant Parpan

grant.parpan@newsday.com@GrantParpan

Grant Parpan covers Suffolk County courts and federal courts for Newsday. A Long Island native, he joined Newsday in 2022.