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BMW driver charged years after he allegedly killed off-duty correction officer, Good Samaritan in NYC crash: NYPD
Anyelo Velez Rodriguez, 33, was slapped with manslaughter charges for allegedly slamming his BMW into a Cross Bronx Expressway pileup that killed pedestrian Jaquan Cesar and motorist Richard Lue on…
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BMW driver charged years after he allegedly killed off-duty correction officer, Good Samaritan in NYC crash: NYPD
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Published March 13, 2024
Updated March 13, 2024, 7:54 p.m. ET
A BMW driver was finally charged five years after he allegedly killed a Good Samaritan and another motorist – a New York City Correction officer – in a chain-reaction crash on a Bronx expressway, cops said.
Anyelo Velez Rodriguez, 33, was arrested Tuesday and slapped with manslaughter charges for allegedly slamming his BMW into a Cross Bronx Expressway pileup that killed pedestrian Jaquan Cesar and motorist Richard Lue on Feb. 11, 2019 at around 1:15 a.m., the NYPD said.
Velez Rodriguez, who also faces a criminally negligent homicide rap, remained at the scene after the smash-up, cops said.
“It took so long for this man to be indicted and arrested,” his aunt Maggie Jean-Francois told The Post in a Wednesday phone interview. “And as a family, we are relieved that somebody is being held accountable. Because, you know, he was loved by his family. He was an important person to his family. And he wasn’t forgotten.”
Cesar, 28, was on his way to see his then-1-year-old son Yasir and girlfriend when he witnessed a 2015 Mercedes Benz striking a 2012 GMC from behind on the westbound Cross Bronx near Webster Avenue, according to authorities and his family.
4 Jaquan Cesar, 28, was killed when he stepped out of his car to help after another collision on the Cross Bronx Expressway, police said. Family handout