Police Identify Julio Acevedo As Brooklyn Hit-And-Run Suspect That Killed Brooklyn Couple, Newborn Baby

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julio-acevedoPolice have identified Julio Acevedo as the man they believe was responsible for the Brooklyn hit-and-run that killed Nachman and Raizy Glauber z”l and their newborn son.

Police are searching for the 44-year-old man, who authorities believe was driving the BMW that plowed into the taxi cab the Glaubers were riding in early Sunday morning.

The couple, both 21, were on the way to a hospital because Mrs. Glauber, who was seven-months pregnant, was experiencing labor pains. Their baby boy initially survived the crash, but later died of his injuries this morning.

Acevedo’s mother, who didn’t give her name, told the NY Daily News that she was estranged from her son. She said he had been in prison in the 1990s for manslaughter.

“I know why you are here. You are here for my son. He doesn’t live here. I don’t want to talk. I have nothing to say. Tell the family of my condolences,” his mother said.

Leaders in Brooklyn’s frum community said they’re seeking justice for the family.

“The only thing I can say is, unfortunately, this little three-pound-boy would have been at least an umbilical cord for the family to remember the couple. And even that was torn away for them,” community leader Isaac Abraham told the New York Post before Acevedo was identified as the hit-and-run suspect. “The best thing for this coward is to charge him with triple homicide — and we are going to demand that.”

A driver in a BMW, who didn’t own the car, was reported speeding around 12:30 a.m. Sunday when it T-boned into the Glaubers taxi, which was near a stop sign, the New York Post reported. Police arrested a woman who co-signed the lease for the BMW; she was charged with insurance fraud, although she wasn’t believed to have been in the vehicle at the time of the accident, the Post reported.

Mrs. Glauber was ejected from the cab and her body wound up underneath a parked tractor trailer, according to the New York Daily News. The taxi driver was treated and released from Bellevue Hospital.

“I don’t remember anything,” Pedro Nunez, 32, told the Daily News. Police “told me it was a hit-and-run. There’s an investigation.”

“It’s a great tragedy for the community,” said Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum of Satmar at the levaya. “We have to hold on together and see what we can do to make things better. This is a very, very big tragedy.”

Mrs. Glauber’s brother, Nuchem Yoel Silberstein, called her “the crown of the family.”

He told mourners, “We were sitting together last night and today she’s gone.”

Silberstein said his brother-in-law was a model husband.

“We can all learn from him how to treat a wife,” he said. “The way he treated her was special.”

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12 COMMENTS

  1. Silberstein said his brother-in-law was a model husband.

    “We can all learn from him how to treat a wife,” he said. “The way he treated her was special.”

    I’m crying just reading this.

  2. Will a reputable representative advise

    what we R to do as a limud from this heart

    wrenching tragedy??

    Tehorim U’kdoshim Zichronom L’Vrochoh

  3. THIS guy was sent by Hashem to wake us up, if he is caught or not is irrelevant, it won’t bring them back to life, the main thing is, that WE ALL wake up and emend our ways of doing Mitzvos, because Moshiach will only come if we improve our Mitzvos.

  4. Right, one of ‘our boys finds him and takes him apart’, and the world cries vigilante justice. Just what we need.

  5. If it was a police officer who was killed, they would of had the creep locked up within the hour after the crash! They don’t care about the average citizen.

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