{"id":83701,"date":"2025-07-22T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83701\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:06:15","slug":"driver-in-awful-nyc-crash-that-killed-2-is-held-without-bail-as-twisted-new-details-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83701\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver in awful NYC crash that killed 2 is held without bail as twisted new details revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a stolen rental car left two bystanders \u201cseverely dismembered\u201d before fleeing the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/21\/us-news\/pair-in-stolen-car-that-killed-two-in-horrific-nyc-crash-had-illegal-gun-stashed-in-trunk-prosecutors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal crash<\/a> soaked in blood \u2014 leaving an open bottle of tequila and two 9mm guns in the wreck, Manhattan prosecutors revealed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new details emerged as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/20\/us-news\/horrifying-video-shows-moment-stolen-car-fatally-plows-into-nyc-woman-sitting-on-a-bench-in-crash-that-left-2-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23-year-old Autumn Donna Ascencio Romero<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/20\/us-news\/driver-of-drug-filled-stolen-car-in-nyc-double-fatal-already-faced-charges-from-earlier-crash-cops-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romero and passenger Kennedy Lecraft<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Autumn Donna Ascencio Romero is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court for the deaths of two people. Curtis Means for Dailymail.com<\/p>\n<p>Two people died at Bowey and Canal Street after a stolen Chevy Malibu struck them. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Romero was already facing charges for seriously injuring a 22-year-old woman in Brooklyn in another traffic mishap in April.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD officers carry a person of interest in custody after two people were killed. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a stolen rental car left two bystanders \u201cseverely dismembered\u201d before fleeing the fatal crash soaked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5303,32457,42423,5249,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-83701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-chinatown","11":"tag-guns","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\/114897982975957816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83701","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=83701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}