NYC Radio: WSKQ Personality Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver

Jean Paul Guerrero, 39, who spun records from 7 p.m. to midnight as DJ Jinx Paul for Spanish Broadcasting System's WSKQ La Mega 97.9 FM, died early Monday morning when he was mowed down in Brooklyn.

Police report Guerrero was crossing Jamaica Ave. at Sheffield Ave. in Highland Park, police said, when a woman driving west in a black Nissan Maxima slammed into him. Police believe the driver to be a woman in her 20s or 30s.

Authorities released video of the car after the crash.

Jesus Salas, executive director of programming at the Spanish Broadcasting System, said the station will do everything it can on-air to help solve the case.

“For him to have gone the way he passed, we’re all still in shock,” Salas said. “Our listeners are calling in now and expressing their feelings of loss, because he was not only on air, but he was also active in the community.”

“He had a very positive aura to him, and it saddens me very much. He was one of the DJs that became very popular, very quickly, on the station,” Salas said.


Guerrero started at the station four years ago and earned a full-time spot within a year, Salas said.

“And ever since, it’s been nonstop with him,” he said. “He was always the first one to be at all our events. He was the type of person you always wanted on your side, and it reflected on air."