HIT & RUN: Julio Acevedo (right), in an interview yesterday, admitted hitting the car in which Nachman and Raizy Glauber (left) were fatally hit, and said he’ll surrender. (
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The still-hiding hit-and-run driver who killed a young couple and their baby said yesterday that he fled the scene because he was “scared.”
Julio Acevedo, 44, insisted he had no clue anyone died in the horrific high-speed crash on Sunday in Brooklyn — and said that he smashed into the livery car carrying Nachman and Raizy Glauber while fleeing a shooting.
“My heart goes out to those people,” he said. “I left the scene, and when I did leave the scene I didn’t know anyone died.”
Acevedo claims he was shot at on Carlton Avenue minutes before the 12:30 a.m. accident — although there were no reports of gunfire in the area.
“I was speeding trying to get away because I was scared from someone shooting at me,” he told a reporter from WABC/Channel 7, who was connected by phone through a friend of Acevedo.
“So when I came down Kent Avenue as I was driving, that cab driver came out of nowhere. I couldn’t stop.”
Asked why he fled the scene, he said, “I was scared. I was scared. I had just been shot at previously.”
Acevedo promised to “turn myself in” — but cops aren’t just waiting around.
“There’s a full manhunt going on,” said a law-enforcement source. “They’ re looking for him all over — no one place.”
Another source said a man claiming to be Acevedo’s lawyer called police, but gave no time frame for a surrender.
Meanwhile, Raizy’s family sat shiva yesterday at their Williamsburg home.
The expectant mother’s obstetrician at Long Island College Hospital — where the couple were headed in the cab — told her parents, “She was a wonderful patient,” according to Raizy’s uncle.
“He was very sad about what happened.”
The couple was going to the doctor in the cab because Raizy was having a complication from the pregnancy.
“Nothing serious. But he wanted to rule everything out and make sure she was OK. So he brought her in,” the uncle said.
The Glaubers, both 21, were riding in a livery car driven by Pedro Nunez Delacruz when Acevedo T-boned their car, cops said.
Raizy, who was seven months pregnant, was ejected.
The livery driver was devastated over the family’s death.
“He’s depressed,” said Delacruz’s wife, Jesenia Perdomo.
She said he is “in so much pain, he can’t even get up and walk. Perhaps he will pay the family his respects tomorrow.”
Acevedo — whose long rap sheet includes the 1987 slaying of the man who inspired rapper 50 Cent’s stage name — had been staying in an affordable-housing unit at the swank Edge apartment complex in Williamsburg.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona, Erin Calabrese and Lorena Mongelli