{"id":672687,"date":"2026-03-22T01:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T01:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/672687\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T01:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T01:15:23","slug":"distraught-family-of-nyc-dad-allegedlly-killed-by-driver-high-on-pcp-demands-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/672687\/","title":{"rendered":"Distraught family of NYC dad allegedlly killed by driver high on PCP demands justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of a bicycle deliveryman fatally struck by a driver <\/a>who was allegedly high on PCP and marijuana in Harlem wants the killer locked up for life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want justice,\u201d Marisel Zacarias, whose nephew Darly Zacarias was killed, told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want him locked up for the rest of his life,\u201d the aunt said of accused driver Kevin Crosby. \u201cHe deserves life. He took someone away who just started to live his life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Darly Zacarias, the father of a 10-year-old boy, was killed by an allegedly drugged up driver in Harlem on Thursday. Facebook \/ Darly Zacarias<\/p>\n

Crosby, 49, was driving a Red Hyundai Tucson while high on PCP and marijuana when he allegedly struck Zacarias, 28, and a 33-year-old bicyclist near 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard around 8 p.m. Thursday, according to court records.<\/p>\n

The victims were dragged<\/a> down the busy thoroughfare as sparks flew from under the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pedestrians scrambled to get out of his way before he barreled into a parked NYPD cruiser, footage showed.<\/p>\n

The second victim was in Harlem Hospital in serious condition.<\/p>\n

Crosby was charged with manslaughter and driving while high, cops said. He was sent to
Rikers Island jail.<\/p>\n

Aunt Marisel Zacarias wants the man who killed her nephew \u201clocked up for life,\u201d she said. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n

She and her mother begged the delivery driver to find another job. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n

Crosby has 19 prior arrests on his record<\/a>, including one for aggravated vehicle assault in June 2020, police sources said.<\/p>\n

In that case, he allegedly struck three pedestrians and hit multiple vehicles on Jerome Avenue and West Fordham Road in the Bronx, according to records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bronx District Attorney\u2019s office lowered the assault charge and prosecuted him on reckless driving and reckless endangerment. He pleaded guilty and got probation.<\/p>\n

Kevin Crosby, 45, told prosecutors he had injested PCP and pot before driving Thursday. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s aunt was beside herself with grief.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe took a father\u00a0whose kid was only 10 years old,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The boy turned 10 the day his father was killed, she added.<\/p>\n

Zacarias came to the country nearly 20 years ago with his mother, who died when he was 10, according to his aunt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victim worked to send money back to his sick father in the Dominican Republic, his family said. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

His 75-year-old grandmother, Gisela Zacarias, raised him and his brother and sister, but was unable to speak \u2014 because she couldn\u2019t stop crying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zacarias worked to support them and his family in the Dominican Republic, especially his father, who has a medical condition, the aunt said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was just very happy,\u201d the aunt said of her nephew. \u201cHis happiness was contagious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crosby had 19 prior arrests on his record including one for aggravated vehicle assault in 2020, police sources said. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n

The aunt can\u2019t forget watching video of him getting hit by the speed-demon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came and hit him from behind,\u201d she said in shock. \u201cThat\u2019s what keeps playing in my mind, and the moment I identified his body in the morgue. I touched his face. I recognized him because of the tattoos on his arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The aunt had pleaded with Zacarias to stop doing deliveries, she said.<\/p>\n

Another man was also struck and seroiusly injured, cops said. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him to find another job,\u201d she said. \u201cMy mother told him to stop too. We thought it was a very dangerous job, but I never thought his life would end because of someone else\u2019s bad action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now she has to tell Zacarias\u2019 son that his dad is gone.<\/p>\n

The aunt said the victim\u2019s son didn\u2019t know what happened to his dad. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you tell a 10-year-old his father is not here anymore?\u201d she asked. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis mom thinks it\u2019s not time yet to tell him,\u201d the aunt said. \u201cHe just thinks that his father is not picking up the phone so he keeps on calling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Marie Pohl and Jennifer Bain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a bicycle deliveryman fatally struck by a driver who was allegedly high on PCP and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":672688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1230,46007,5231,5249,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-672687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drugs","10":"tag-food-delivery","11":"tag-harlem","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-nypd","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116270184991683760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}