NY hit-and-run suspect arrest
New York police on Wednesday said arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver following a weekend accident that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple whose baby was later delivered by C-section but then died.
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Report: Hit-and-run suspect 'killed the original 50 Cent'
The suspect arrested in connection with the New York hit-and-run that left a young Orthodox Jewish couple and their premature baby dead reportedly served jail time for fatally shooting the original "50 Cent", Kelvin Martin.
According to the New York Daily News, Julio Acevedo, who turned himself in to police in Pennsylvania yesterday, is the same Acevedo convicted in the 1987 shooting death of Martin, the career criminal believed to have inspired the name of rapper "50 Cent".
The New York Police Department said Acevedo has a lengthy criminal record that includes murder, robbery and weapons possession.
He was also arrested in February for drunk driving and then released, a police spokesperson added.
New York hit-and-run suspect gave himself in
Julio Acevedo, the man wanted by New York police in connection with a hit-and-run car crash that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple and their baby, gave himself in.
Acevedo, 44, handed himself in to New York City detectives in a car park in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, ending a nationwide manhunt, New York City Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said.
The meeting between the suspect and officers was arranged with the help of one of Acevedo's friends, Browne added.
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Hit-and-run suspect 'fleeing shooting'
Julio Acevedo, the man wanted by police in New York in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed an expectant couple, told New York's Daily News he was fleeing a gunman who was trying to shoot at him.
The couple's baby was delivered prematurely after the crash on Sunday, but later died.
Hit-and-run suspect arrested in Pennsylvania
Police in Pennsylvania have arrested Julio Acevedo, the man wanted in connection with a weekend hit-and-run that killed a young couple in Brooklyn at the weekend. An NYPD spokesman told the New York Daily News:
Plans are under way now to extradite him to New York in connection with the car crash that took the lives of the young couple and their child.
New York police arrest hit-and-run suspect
New York police have arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver following a weekend accident that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple whose baby was later delivered by C-section but then died. New York Police Detective Kelly Ort said:
The suspect has been apprehended.
Suspect in NY hit-and-run deaths of couple and baby
Police in New York have issued a photograph of a man who was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a couple and baby delivered after their deaths.
Nachman and Raizy Glauber were on their way to the hospital on Sunday when they were killed. Their baby boy, who was delivered by emergency Caesarean, died earlier today.
The suspect, Julio Acevedo, 44, was picked out of a photo lineup by a witness, a police spokesman said.
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Expectant parents hit-and-run driver is 'a coward'
The baby boy who was born after his parents was killed in a car crash but later died, will be named and buried quickly in a private service, a family spokeman has said.
Community leader Isaac Abraham also said a hit-and-run driver and a female passenger who fled the scene that killed Raizy and Nachman Glauber were "cowards".
"Had it not been for this coward who caused this accident and ran off, the baby would have been in the mother's womb and lived.
"It's the prosecution's obligation to charge these cowards with triple homicide."
Police: Baby delivered after parents killed has died
A newborn baby who was delivered after his parents were killed in a car accident has died, New York Police Department has said
The baby boy died from injuries overnight at New York's Bellevue Hospital, a spokesman said.
His parents, Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were on their way to the hospital on Sunday when they were killed.
The couple's funeral took place yesterday, in keeping with Orthodox Jewish tradition.
Police are continuing their search for a hit-and-run driver who fled the scene and his female passenger.
Police still searching for New York hit-and-run driver
Police in New York are still looking for a hit-and-run driver involved in a collision which killed expectant parents and, later, their baby boy.
Parents Nachy and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were in a taxi travelling to hospital when it was hit by a grey BMW in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Police said a male driver and his passenger fled the scene on foot.
Report: Baby delivered after parents killed in car crash dies
A baby born after his parents were killed in a New York car crash has also died, according to CBS New York.
Doctors had delivered the baby shortly after his seven-months pregnant mother, 21-year-old Raizy Gauber, died in a hit-and-run collision whilst being driven to hospital.