Mexican suspect in hit-and-run crash that killed expectant couple has DWI, manslaughter past

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lled-expectant-couple-has-dwi-manslaughter/

Police say the suspect in a horrific hit-and-run crash that killed a
young New York couple and their baby served time for manslaughter and
was charged with DWI just last month.

Authorities are still searching for 44-year-old Julio Acevedo, who
police say ran away from the crash that killed Nachman and Raizy
Glauber, both 21, and their son, who died at a hospital after being
delivered by caesarean section.

Police say Acevedo was barreling down a residential street in a BMW at
60 mph, twice the speed limit, early Sunday when he collided with a car
hired to take the couple to the hospital.

The death of the newborn on Monday piled tragedy upon tragedy and
compounded the community's grief. The baby was buried near the fresh
graves of his parents, according to Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the
Hasidic Jewish community. About a thousand community members turned out
for the young couple's funeral a day earlier.

"The mood in the neighborhood is very heavy," said Oscar Sabel, a
retired printer who lives near the scene of the accident. "We all hoped
the baby would survive."

Acevedo was arrested last month on a charge of driving while under the
influence, and the case is pending. He served about a decade in prison
in the 1990s for manslaughter.

"We in the community are demanding that the prosecutor charge the driver
of BMW that caused the death of this couple and infant be charged with
triple homicide, this coward left the scene of the accident not even
bothering to check on the people of the other car," Abraham said
according to MyFoxNY.com.

Brooklyn is home to the largest community of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside
Israel, more than 250,000. The couple wed last year in a marriage
arranged through a matchmaker and were living in the Williamsburg
neighborhood.

They were members of the Satmar Hasidic sect, whose men dress in dark
coats and hats, wear long beards like their Eastern European ancestors
and have limited dealings with the outside world. Raizy Glauber grew up
in a prominent rabbinical family. Her husband was studying at a
rabbinical college; his family founded a line of clothing for Orthodox
Jews.

Sabel, dressed in the traditional long black coat of the Satmar, said it
was a terrible tragedy.

"But it's what God wants," he said. "Maybe the baby's death, and his
parents', is not for nothing; God doesn't have to give us answers."

Shortly after midnight Sunday, Raizy Glauber, who was seven months
pregnant, wasn't feeling well, so the couple decided to go to the
hospital, said Sara Glauber, Nachman Glauber's cousin. They called a
livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off
the street like a yellow cab.

The livery cab had a stop sign, but it's not clear if the driver
stopped.

Police said the crash with the BMW reduced the cab to a crumpled heap,
and Raizy Glauber was thrown from the wreck. The engine ended up in the
back seat, Abraham said.

The baby weighed only about 4 pounds when he was delivered, neighbors
and friends said. He died of extreme prematurity, the city medical
examiner's office said.

The driver of the livery cab, Pedro Nunez Delacruz, was knocked
unconscious but was not seriously hurt. His vehicle should not have been
sent to pick up the passengers because an application to use the Toyota
as a livery cab had not yet been approved, the city Taxi and Limousine
Commission said.

How Acevedo came to possess the BMW is also under investigation. The
registered owner, Takia Walker, was arrested on insurance fraud charges
Sunday in a scam involving the car, police said. She was not involved in
the crash. A telephone number registered to Walker rang unanswered.

A person familiar with the investigation said Walker bought the car
legally, or allowed her identification to be used in the purchase, then
gave the vehicle to a middleman who either lent or rented it out to the
driver. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The
Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

No one answered the door at Acevedo's last known address, in a public
housing complex in Brooklyn. Neighbors said his mother lived in the same
building, but she did not answer her door.


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