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Newborn dies day after parents tragically killed in hit-run crash on way to hospital – cops ID driver

Police have identified Julio Acevedo as the driver in the Brooklyn hit-and-run crash that left a young couple and their newborn son dead.

Police have identified Julio Acevedo as the driver in the Brooklyn hit-and-run crash that left a young couple and their newborn son dead. (DCPI)

Raizel and Nachman Glauber, both 21, were killed in a hit-and-run crash in Brooklyn.

Raizel and Nachman Glauber, both 21, were killed in a hit-and-run crash in Brooklyn. (
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ANGUISH:
Members of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community mourn yesterday over the coffins of Raizel and Nachman Glauber, whose son was delivered by C-section after both were killed in a crash. The baby, in serious but stable condition last night, will be named for his father, a relative said.

ANGUISH:

Members of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community mourn yesterday over the coffins of Raizel and Nachman Glauber, whose son was delivered by C-section after both were killed in a crash. The baby, in serious but stable condition last night, will be named for his father, a relative said. (AP)

Cops identifed the driver in a Williamsburg hit-and-run that left a young couple and their newborn son dead.

Police were searching for Julio Acevedo, 44, in the horrific crash that killed Nachman and Raizel Glauber as they were driving to a Brooklyn hospital.

Acevedo has a long rap sheet including a bust for second-degree murder dating back to 1987. In addition to the murder rap, Acevedo has two arrests for criminal possession of a controlled substance, reckless endangerment, robbery and even a DWI arrest from Feb. 17 of this year.

Nachman and his wife — who had been having pregnancy pain — were en route to meet her doctor at Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, at around 12:30 a.m yesterday, relatives said.

That’s when their Toyota Camry livery cab was broadsided by a speeding gray 2010 BMW, cops said.

A newborn boy, who initially survived the horrific crash died this morning, turning a community’s hope into deeper despair.

The firstborn child of Nachman and Raizel Glauber was delivered prematurely as his 7-months-pregnant mom died at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan yesterday morning.

According to police and Jewish Orthodox community leader Isaac Abraham, the infant passed away today at about 5:30 a.m.

“The only thing I can say is, unfortunately, this little 3-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,” Abraham told The Post.

“The best thing for this coward is to charge him with triple homicide — and we are going to demand that,” Abraham said.

The baby will be circumcised and named but a funeral will not be held, sources said. He’ll likely be buried along with his parents at Kiryas Joel in Rockland County.

“Whoever did not go through this cannot even contemplate what this is, to lose a sister and [her] husband,” Raizel Glauber’s brother Joseph Silberstein said today outside of his parents’ Williamsburg apartment, where the family is sitting shiva.

The grieving Silberstein sighed and tried to make sense of this incredibly sad turn of events.

“And more, so suddenly,” he said. “But God created this world. This was his will. This is what he wanted, this is what he did, and we accept his decree.”

Nachman Glauber’s cousin Sarah Gluck said the baby will be named for his father.

“They were always glowing,” Gluck said of the Hasidic couple, who married in January 2012.

“They were just starting out with their life, building a family. They were very excited. That’s what makes it so tragic.”

Raizel, known as “Raizy,” was ejected from the car in the T-bone crash, which sent the cab spinning into the median.

She was thrown so far that EMTs initially didn’t initially find her under a nearby, parked tractor-trailer.

Nachman was pinned in the cab. He and the driver, Pedro Nunez Delacruz, had to be cut from the wreckage.

Last night, a Bronx woman who had co-signed the BMW’s lease was charged with insurance fraud. Takia Walker, 29, had allegedly acquired the car under false pretense, and let a third party, who was not on the insurance drive it, sources said.

Thousands of mourners at Khal Yitav Lev synagogue in Williamsburg paid respects to the newborn’s 21-year-old parents yesterday afternoon.

Mourners lined Rodney Street to say farewell to the victims. Every stoop on the brownstone-lined block was packed, men on one side, women on the other.

Grand Satmar Rebbe Zalman Leib Teitelbaum sobbed as he addressed the mourners.

“What could we say? What is there to say about this? The tragedy speaks for itself,’’ he said.

Women shrieked. Men buried their faces in their hands.

“God is punishing me for my sins by taking away my daughter,” Raizy’s father Yitzchak Silberstein said in Yiddish at the funeral. “Nobody knows how this could happen.”

Silberstein praised his late son-in-law, talking about how the young couple ate dinner with her parents every night.

“Every day, they spent time together,” he said, noting how “unbelievably good he cared for her and she cared for him.”

“I don’t know what to say. My mind is not here,” the heartbroken dad said. “No one understands how this happened. I’m in shock.”

Raizy’s brother Nuchem Yoel Silberstein said: “We can all learn from [Nachman] how to treat a wife. She was the crown of the family.”

Moshe Meisels, a yeshiva friend of Nachman, told The Post a heartwarming story about how the young husband had recently collected money to help an orphaned friend pay for an upcoming wedding.

“He was thinking about how he would feel if he didn’t have a father or a mother,” a shaken Meisels said.

It was unclear whether the cabdriver, Delacruz, who works for Go Car in Williamsburg, had come to a full halt at a stop sign before the crash. The BMW did not have a stop sign.

Nachman — a bright, promising rabbinical student whose own mother had just delivered a boy two weeks ago — died at Beth Israel Medical Center. Raizy died at Bellevue as her son was born.

Nachman’s parents were not at the Brooklyn funeral. They were expected to attend a service in Monsey, Rockland County, where they live, last night before the couple was buried in nearby Kiryas Joel.

Nachman came from a large family that runs a popular Hasidic clothing company.

Meanwhile, Delacruz, himself a father of three with a fourth on the way, was being treated for a bruised chest.

“I feel very sorry for that beautiful family,” he told WABC-TV.

The driver’s wife, Yesenia Perdomo, told The Post, “He doesn’t remember what happened. He passed out.”

Additional reporting by Jessica Simeone, Larry Celona, Jeane MacIntosh, C.J. Sullivan, David K. Li and Kaylee Osowski