Loved ones of an on-the-lam hit-and-run suspect pleaded with him to give up Thursday so he can face charges of mowing down a 12-year-old girl.
Robert DeCarlo, 26, has been wanted by police since Wednesday afternoon when he allegedly plowed his stolen minivan into a family on Flatlands Avenue near Schenectady Avenue in Mill Basin around 4:45 p.m., cops said.
“Just turn yourself in and get this over with,” emotional brother Dan DeCarlo, 20, begged. “It’s just a nightmare. I think he’s going to turn himself in.”
The younger DeCarlo said the entire family is distraught and thinking of the dead little girl and her critically injured sister.
“I want to say `sorry’ to the family that lost a child,” DeCarlo said, before breaking down in tears. “It’s so bad.”
Speaking from their grandfather’s home in Gravesend, DeCarlo said he hasn’t seen his brother in months.
Robert DeCarlo is a pill-popping “drug addict,” his brother said. The family has tried to get him help “plenty of times,” but he’s always resisted, the 20-year-old said.
“My mom’s very sick, she’s disabled,” Dan DeCarlo said. “She’s very stressed. We’re worried about him.”
The suspected hit-and-run driver had just been arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court on Tuesday and released without bail, public records show.
He’s accused of approaching a 65-year-old woman who was shopping at a food stand in Brighton Beach and robbing her in broad daylight on March 21, police said.
Cops busted Robert DeCarlo for that incident on May 23 and he was charged with assault, robbery, identity theft, grand larceny and petit larceny, public records show.
He has a rap sheet that includes previous arrests for criminal possession of a controlled substance, the records show.