NY police eye extradition of Julio Acevedo suspected in crash that killed expectant parents
Posted: 03/07/2013
Last Updated:
75 days ago
NEW YORK - A man arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with a gruesome New York City car crash that killed a pregnant woman and her husband on their way to a hospital has waived extradition and will return to New York.
Forty-four-year-old Julio Acevedo (ah-seh-VAY'-doh) surrendered to police in the parking lot of an eastern Pennsylvania convenience store on Wednesday and was later ordered held without bail overnight on a charge of being a fugitive. His surrender was brokered by a friend.
Acevedo is suspected of speeding down a Brooklyn street and crashing into a car carrying the couple. He has told the Daily News he was fleeing a gunman who was trying to shoot at him.
The couple's baby was delivered prematurely by cesarean section after the
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