The suspect arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with the Brooklyn hit-and-run crash that killed a pregnant woman and her husband on their way to a hospital over the weekend has been charged with manslaughter and homicide charges.
The Sunday morning crash also resulted in the death of the couple’s premature son, who was delivered by C-section and died a day later.
Julio Acevedo, 44, was charged in New York City with one count of first-degree vehicular manslaughter for causing the death of a child passenger, three counts of criminally negligent homicide and three counts of leaving the scene of an accident.
The exact charged are:
1 count of Vehicular Manslaughter 1: Cause Death of Child Passenger
3 counts of Leaving the Scene of an Accident
3 counts of Criminally Negligent Homicide
(AP / YWN Desk – NYC)
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I’m just curious; why is the death of the “child passenger” any more reason to charge him with manslaughter then the deaths of the parents? Is their blood not red enough??
I’m no lawyer but I think the death of the parents is included in the manslaughter charge. The death of the baby is not because it didn’t happen as a direct result of the accident. He died because he was born very premature. The accident was a grama. Therefore, it gets its own charge. The legal experts can explain.
We just need to daven that this doesn’t happen again. Hashem yeracheim.
The prosecutors charge people with all possible offenses that fit the definition of the crime. Now it may be that the manslaughter of the child is the same as the 3rd homicide charge. In that case they leave it up to the jury to decide which of those crimes to find him guilty of. It’s unlikely that he can be convicted of both manslaughter and homicide.
If they only charged him with one of the two and the jury decided it did not meet the legal requirement to convict him, then the prosecutors might not be able to add on new charges later.