VIDEO: Accused drunken driver breaks down after learning pregnant fiancé died in wreck

NYPost.com:

A pregnant Staten Island woman had her unborn baby ripped out and hurled 40 feet in a drunken-driving crash, officials said Monday — as her fiance, the driver, learned only minutes before court both had died.

Suspect Adem Nikeziq, 30, wept uncontrollably during his first appearance before a judge, after his lawyer broke the news that his seven-months-pregnant fiancee and unborn daughter were dead.

“No one told him that his fiancee and baby had passed,” Nikeziq’s lawyer, Mark Fonte, told The Post outside court. “He found out minutes ago, just before he came out [into the courtroom]. When I told him, he broke down crying, sobbing. He was at first completely in disbelief.”

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The deadly crash reportedly happened around 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, as Nikeziq was driving drunk and speeding. He lost control of the car, hit a retaining wall, then hit a light pole, splitting the car in half.

His fiancee, Adriana Sylmetaj, 23, was in the passenger seat, the report explains.  Sylmetaj, seven months pregnant, was ejected from the vehicle. Her sister is an NYPD police officer.

Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Agostino told the judge, “She was found at the intersection. Her severed leg was found 20 feet past her body. Her unborn child, ripped from her body, was found 20 feet past her leg.”

Brought to court in a wheelchair and wearing a hospital gown, Nikeziq, is now charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, vehicular assault and drunken driving in the deadly crash.

The judge ordered Nikeziq held on $400,000 cash bail or a $700,000 bond, the NY Post writes.

Driver charged in killing pregnant girlfriend, 23, in Staten Island crash was wildly speeding: prosecutors

Boozed Adem Nikeziq, 30, faces charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide:
“I was cut off by another vehicle and I crashed,” he saidhttps://t.co/yhkVfSJgWs

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) January 30, 2023

Pregnant woman killed in Staten Island car crash; driver Adem Nikeziq arrested on DWI charges https://t.co/yk2aa7HuJanuary 6th

— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) January 29, 2023

Accused drunken driver breaks down after learning pregnant fiance died in New York City wreck https://t.co/v85gUGz8TV pic.twitter.com/ry4u7kXCWL

— New York Post (@nypost) January 30, 2023

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