The trash hauler arrested for killing a man while driving a city garbage truck in Brooklyn is back to work, the Daily News has learned.
Aaron Gilchrist, 33, mowed down Alberto Leal in crosswalk where Eastern Parkway meets Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights at 6:47 a.m. on Oct. 11, cops said.
Leal, 37, died at the scene. He lived nearby on Nostrand Ave.
Video footage showed the driver then turn the truck around so it would appear it was on the right side of the road.
Gilchrist, who is charged with failing to yield to a pedestrian, driving the wrong way and failure to exercise care, was immediately suspended but is now on modified duty, a city Sanitation Department spokesman said.
He now works out of a city sanitation garage in Crown Heights, sources told The News.
Gilchrist is “performing garage security (watchman) duties and various administrative functions which do not require driving the truck,” according to Sanitation Department spokesman Vito Turso.
“He can drive his personal vehicle to work,” Turso added. “We are simply ‘grounding’ him from driving a truck until we are advised that it is OK for him to return to full duty.”
Gilchrist, who’s worked as a city garbage hauler since 2005, did not return calls.
When approached outside at their Bushwick home, Gilchrist’s wife, Stacie Steinbuch, declined to talk about the crash.
“We’re not doing this,” she said. “We’ve been harassed enough by people. You have to leave my home.”
