(WNY News Now) – A 62-year-old Buffalo man has been sentenced to up to four years in prison for leaving the scene of a 2024 crash that killed a 66-year-old pedestrian in the city’s Black Rock neighborhood.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Benjamin J. Medley was sentenced Monday, October 19, to 1⅓ to four years in state prison after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an incident resulting in death, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office.

State Supreme Court Justice Betty Calvo-Torres imposed the sentence. Medley’s New York State driver’s license was also revoked for one year.

The crash happened at approximately 7:40 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at the intersection of Grant and Amherst streets in Buffalo.

According to prosecutors, Medley was driving north on Grant Street when his vehicle struck Richard T. Gould, 66, who was crossing the intersection.

Medley left the scene without notifying police, authorities said.

Gould was transported by ambulance to Erie County Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Medley pleaded guilty to the sole count of the indictment: leaving the scene of an incident resulting in death, a Class D felony under New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law.

The district attorney’s office said the charge represented the highest sustainable charge in the case.

Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane credited Buffalo Police Department Accident Investigation Unit officers Jenna Capizzi, Mark Andrzejak and Jason Heidinger, along with the Buffalo Fire Department, for their work on the investigation.

The case was prosecuted by Chief Patrick B. Shanahan and Assistant District Attorney Mitchell T. Schoellkopf of the Vehicular Crimes Bureau, with Assistant Chief Denise A. Herman of the Felony Trials Bureau.