The New York City Police have identified a suspect in the deadly hit-and-run accident in Brooklyn that left a young married couple dead.
The news comes hours after the baby boy, who was delivered post-mortem, died on Monday.
The suspect, Julio Acevedo, 44, was picked out of a photo lineup by a witness and believed to be the driver of a BMW that hit a livery cab carrying the couple, Nachman and Raizy Glauber, who were both 21.
After the Glaubers died, doctors performed an emergency cesarean section at the site of the crash early Sunday in Brooklyn to save the boy's life, according to reports.
Nachman was pinned in the car, and emergency workers cut open the roof to get to him. Raizy was 24 weeks pregnant and the couple rushed to the hospital because she could no longer feel the baby, a relative told The New York Times.
The car-service driver, identified 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, so should not have been picking up passengers, the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission said, according to The New York Post.
The infant succumbed to his injuries overnight at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the spokesman said.
Witnesses reported the BMW was traveling at high speed and the taxi was at a stop sign, police said.
Raizy Glauber's parents live in Williamsburg, and Nachman Glauber's parents live in Monsey, New York, home to a large Jewish Orthodox community.
The Glaubers were mourned by 1,000 people at a funeral outside the Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar synagogue in Brooklyn on Sunday. Afterward, the cars carrying the bodies left and headed to Monsey, where another service was planned, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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