Driver in NYC horror crash that killed 2 held without bail as twisted new details revealed
The new details emerged as 23-year-old Autumn Donna Ascencio Romero was arraigned on murder, manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges and ordered held without bail in the horrific Saturday morning crash that killed both bystanders in Chinatown.
Romero and passenger Kennedy Lecraft, 22, who rented the blue 2024 Chevy Malibu and failed to return it, are charged in the caught-on-video crash that killed 63-year-old May Kwok and Chase bank manager and cycling enthusiast Kevin Scott Cruickshank, 55.
4 Autumn Donna Ascencio Romero, is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court for the death of two people.
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4 Two people died at Bowey and Canal Street after a stolen Chevy Malibu struck the bystanders.
William Farrington
Lecroft was arraigned Monday on charges of possession of stolen property and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and was ordered held on $150,000 cash bail or a $300,000 bond.
4 Surveillance video shows the moment a stolen car plows into a 63-year-old woman sitting on a bench and a passing bicyclist.
Obtained by the NY Post
Romero was already facing charges for seriously injuring a 22-year-old woman in Brooklyn in another traffic mishap in April.
4 NYPD officers carry a person of interest in custody after two people were killed.
William Farrington
Disturbing footage of the Saturday morning crash shows Cruickshank riding his bike just moments before he and Kwok were brutally dismembered by the speeding vehicle.
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