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This undated photo, provided by the New York City Police Department, shows Julio Acevedo, 44.

The man suspected of killing a young couple and ultimately their newborn son in a hit-and-run crash in New York says he’s ready to turn himself in but is arranging for a lawyer first.

The suspect, Julio Acevedo, also told the Daily News in a telephone interview that his heart goes out to the family. The parents, both 21, died soon after the crash. The baby boy was delivered at the scene and died the next day.

“I didn’t know they died until I saw the news,” Acevedo told the newspaper.

Acevedo, 44, served prison time after a manslaughter conviction in the 1987 shooting death of Kelvin Martin, a Brooklyn criminal and street legend who was known as 50 Cent — the inspiration for the name of the better-known present-day rapper.

The young couple, Nachman and Raizy Glauber, were using a car service and were on their way to the hospital after midnight Sunday when the car was struck by a BMW that police say was driven by Acevedo.

The baby was delivered by emergency cesarean section and died early Monday. He was born about three months premature and was buried later Monday near the graves of his parents, a spokesman for the Glaubers’ Orthodox Jewish community said.

Acevedo told the Daily News that he was fleeing a foe who was shooting at him as he sped through the streets of Brooklyn. Police told the newspaper that there were no reports of gunfire at the time.

Police also told New York newspapers that neither Acevedo nor anyone representing him had called them.

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Baby boy delivered after car crash that killed both his parents dies, family spokesman says

A baby boy delivered after a hit-and-run car crash in New York that killed both his parents has died, a family spokesman said Monday.

Doctors performed an emergency cesarean section at the site of the crash early Sunday in Brooklyn to save the boy’s life. His parents were using a car service to go to the hospital when their vehicle crashed into a BMW at an intersection. 

The driver of the other car fled and has not been found. The owner of that car, identified by police as Takia Walker of the Bronx, was arrested Monday on insurance fraud charges, accused of allowing someone not on the insurance policy to drive the car, NBC New York reported.

Isaac Abraham, who serves as a spokesman for the family’s Orthodox Jewish community, said that the baby would be buried upstate after his body was released by the hospital. He demanded triple-homicide charges for the driver of the BMW.

“This coward left the scene of the accident not even bothering to check on the people of the other car,” he said, according to The Associated Press.

Both of the boy’s parents were 21. The mother, Raizy Glauber, was thrown from the car and landed under a parked tractor-trailer, witnesses said. The father, Nachman Glauber, was pinned in the car, and emergency workers cut open the roof to get to him.

Both died at nearby hospitals.

The mother was 24 weeks pregnant and was rushing to the hospital because she could no longer feel the baby, a relative told The New York Times. After the emergency delivery, the baby was taken to a hospital and had been in serious condition.

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Members of the Satmar Orthodox Jewish community carry caskets Sunday to the funeral of two expectant parents who were killed in a car accident in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The car-service driver, identified by The Times as Pedro Nuñez Delacruz, was taken to the hospital and released.

Delacruz had a pending application to use the car as a service, known in New York as a livery cab, and should not have been picking up passengers, the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission told The Times.

The couple had been married about a year and had started a life in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the young mother grew up in a prominent rabbinical family, a relative told NBC New York.

In Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon, hundreds of mourners surrounded two coffins covered in black velvet. Jewish law calls for burying the dead as soon as possible.

This story was originally published on Mon Mar 4, 2013 8:59 AM EST