Stratton Road Resident Killed on the Hutch

A Scarsdale man, who got out of a town car on the Hutchinson River Parkway, shortly after midnight on Thursday December 11th was killed when he ran into oncoming traffic.

The man was identified as Walter Braun, age 42 of Stratton Road.  He was traveling to Scarsdale  in a Lincoln Town Car with Hoin Chun, age 39 of Cliffside Park, N.J. Chun and Braun had been drinking in Manhattan and hired the car to take them to Braun’s Stratton Road home.  According to the driver of the town car, the two got into a fight in the backseat, and the driver pulled the car over just south of Webster Avenue in New Rochelle.

Mr. Braun jumped out of the car, and his friend also got out to try to get him back into the car.  Before he could do so, Braun was hit by a Jeep in the middle lane of the parkway. Police do not know the nature of the fight  between the two passengers, however Mr. Chun was found with cocaine, and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, which is a felony.

At 3:24 am, Westchester County Police contacted the Scarsdale police to ask them to go to the Stratton Road home and advise Ms. Pia Braun of the death of her husband.  Police went to the home, informed Ms. Braun and waited with her until family arrived. The Brauns had only moved to Scarsdale recently and were renting the house on Stratton Road.