Skip to main content

Services Announced as Hit-and-Run Victim's Children Are Discharged From Hospital

Sun, 01/17/2021 - 10:02

Online donations for Yuris Murillo Cruz's funeral expenses and family surpass $200,000

Yuris Murillo Cruz, left, and a roadside memorial set up near the spot where she was struck and killed on Wednesday.
Yardley and Pino Funeral Home, Christine Sampson

Services have been planned to remember Yuris Murillo Cruz, the mother of two who died in the hit-and-run car accident in Amagansett last week. Over the weekend, her children, Josue Gael, 1, and Michelle, 4, were discharged from Stony Brook University Hospital.

Public visiting hours are from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home, 94 Pantigo Road in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 79 Buell Lane, on Tuesday at 2 p.m.

According to a relative, Angelica Marta, the children and their father are currently staying with his sister because two members of their household recently tested positive for Covid-19.

Meanwhile, community efforts to support the Murillo Cruz family are ongoing. A GoFundMe fund-raiser surpassed $100,000 over the weekend. A second GoFundMe campaign, set up by Ms. Murillo's friend Angelica Marta of Hampton Bays, had reached $82,000 as of Monday. 

East Hampton Had Role in High-Stakes Poker Scandal

Rigged, illegal, and high-stakes poker games have been held in recent years in various locales, including East Hampton, according to a federal indictment filed on Oct. 9. 

Oct 30, 2025

On the Police Logs 10.30.25

The shaving cream vandal struck again over the weekend, this time spraying the stuff around the interior and exterior of the men’s restroom in the Reutershan parking lot downtown Saturday night.

Oct 30, 2025

On the Police Logs 10.23.25

A dog had been barking on and off in a fenced-in backyard for four days, a Springs-Fireplace Road neighbor reported on the night of Oct.15, adding that the house appeared to be empty and abandoned. Police went to the property and found a large black-and-white husky, “whimpering and shivering.”

Oct 23, 2025

Felony Arrests, One Night After Another

Town police made two similar felony-level arrests for drunken driving last week, one on Main Street in Montauk and the other in East Hampton.

Oct 23, 2025

 

Your support for The East Hampton Star helps us deliver the news, arts, and community information you need. Whether you are an online subscriber, get the paper in the mail, delivered to your door in Manhattan, or are just passing through, every reader counts. We value you for being part of The Star family.

Your subscription to The Star does more than get you great arts, news, sports, and outdoors stories. It makes everything we do possible.