Newborn delivered after N.Y. crash dies
Infant is buried next to his parents
NEW YORK – A close-knit ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn was plunged into a new round of mourning Monday by the death of a baby delivered by cesarean section after his parents were killed in a grisly hit-and-run crash a day earlier.
Police hunted for the suspected driver, identified as Julio Acevedo, saying he 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 compounded the community’s grief. The baby was buried near the fresh graves of his parents, Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21, according to Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the Hasidic Jewish community.
About 1,000 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.”
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.
Acevedo, 44, 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.