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Fast Forward Man Convicted of Killing Satmar Rabbi May Be Released This Week
A man jailed for 21 years for the murder of a prominent Satmar rabbi might not actually be guilty, the New York Times reported Wednesday. David Ranta, sentenced to 37.5 years in a maximum-security prison in May 1991 for the violent murder of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger, may be released as early as Thursday, the report…
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Fast Forward Hit-and-Run Killer Was Speeding at 69 in Crash That Killed Orthodox Couple
Hit-and-run driver Julio Acevedo was speeding at 69 miles per hour before he slammed into a cab carrying an expectant Orthodox couple on their way to the hospital — killing the couple and their “miracle” baby. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced that charges against Acevedo, 44, were increased to second-degree manslaughter in…
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Life Hit-and-Run Tragedy Bridges Jewish Divide
I generally find it hard to feel as if I am part of the same Jewish people as Satmar Hasidim. Living not far from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I see them regularly yet it’s hard to imagine feeling more worlds apart. At the mall I encounter young women — so young that in another life I would…
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Fast Forward Relatives Relieved at Arrest of Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Orthodox Family
Family and friends of the Orthodox family wiped out in a hit-and-run car crash over the weekend were relieved at the arrest of the killer driver, but still heartbroken at their crushing loss. Career criminal Julio Acevedo, 44, who has admitted slamming his car into the livery cab carrying the couple to the hospital to…
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Fast Forward Shameless Hit-and-Run Killer Says Sorry for Killing Orthodox Couple, ‘Miracle’ Baby
The shameless hit-and-run driver who killed an Orthodox couple as they rode to the hospital to deliver their first driver told a reporter that he was sorry that they died along with their newborn boy. Career criminal Julio Acevedo, who is still on the run from police, said he raced away from the horror Sunday…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Baby Survives Crash That Killed Orthodox Jewish Parents Going to Hospital
The “miracle” infant of Brooklyn will forever celebrate its birthday on the anniversary of his parents tragic death. The premature baby remains in serious condition in a hospital intensive care unit after being delivered after his Orthodox parents were killed in a hit-and-run car crash as they rode to the hospital Sunday morning. UPDATE: Tragedy…
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Fast Forward Overflow Funeral Mourns Expectant Couple Killed in Crash on Way to Hospital
Orthodox Jews overflowed a New York synagogue and poured onto the streets on Sunday to mourn the death of a young couple killed in a car accident on their way to the hospital to have their first baby, who survived after delivery by C-section. Meanwhile police continued their intensive search for a hit-and-run driver and…
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Fast Forward Cops Hunt for Hit-Run Driver Who Killed Expectant Orthodox Parents
Police began an intensive search on Sunday for a suspected hit-and-run driver and a passenger who fled an accident on Saturday that killed a young couple on the way to the hospital to have their first baby, who survived. Investigators launched what a police spokeswoman called “full-on search” for the male driver and female passenger…
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