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Hit-And-Run Driver Wanted For Horrific Williamsburg Crash Blames Original 50 Cent
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 6, 2013
Modified Mar 6, 2013
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The man wanted in connection with a horrific Williamsburg crash that killed a young married couple and their unborn child isn't talking to police, but he's making himself very available to the media. For the past two days, Julio Acevedo has been hiding from police, escaping capture despite a $22,000 reward and a citywide manhunt. Yet he's granted several phone interviews with the media, arranged through an old prison buddy. And he swears he's really sorry.
“I was scared," Acevedo told ABC 7. "I was scared. I had just been shot at previously.” The Post reports that Acevedo had been staying in an affordable-housing unit at the swank Edge apartment complex in Williamsburg. But on Saturday night Acevedo says he was on Carlton Avenue, driving a borrowed BMW. The area where Acevedo claims he was shot at was the turf of Kelvin Martin, a.k.a. the original 50 Cent, a gangster Acevedo killed in 1987.
Acevedo served twenty years in prison for the murder, and he told reporters yesterday that he was driving recklessly because someone had just tried to kill him in retaliation for the 50 Cent job: "They pulled the gun out and said, ‘Nothing is ever forgotten.' " In an interview with ABC 7, Acevedo said, "I was speeding, trying to get away because I was scared from someone shooting at me. The cab driver came out of nowhere and I couldn't stop."
The cab driver, Pedro Nunez Delacruz, survived with minor injuries, but his passengers, Nachman and Raizy Glauber, were killed. Acevedo, who'd been arrested two weeks earlier on a drunk driving charge, was rescued from the totaled BMW by a good Samaritan, but then he walked away. He says he didn't know anyone was killed. "This why I am willing to turn myself in," he told ABC 7. "Because my heart goes out to all of those people that's feeling like I'm so much of a bad guy and I'm really not. I did not know that occurred until I seen the news. Once I seen the news, I said I have to get my attorney ready before I turn myself in."
Last night NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told the Times, "Neither Acevedo nor anyone representing him has contacted the police. He is still wanted by the police, and we’re out looking for him.”
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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