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http://nypost.com/2015/10/31/1-dead-...k-or-treaters/
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Luis Perez, 65, died, along with his 9-year-old granddaughter, Nyanna Aquil.
His 3-year-old granddaughter, Jasmina Aquil, was among the injured.
Also killed was Kristian Leka, 24, a truck driver.
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Kristian Leka killed in accident
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“He was on the sidewalk trick-or-treating with his 9-year-old sister,’’ said a cousin, who asked not to be identified.
The car that hit his cousin, he said, “was speeding, hit another car and then flipped onto the sidewalk.’’
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A close friend of Leka, who also asked that his name not be printed, said before the car struck Leka down, he desperately tried to push his sister, Fiona, out of the away.
Also hurt was Greata Leka, 21.
All of the injured were listed in critical condition.
One of the 9-year-old girls who was hit had been dressed as a cheetah; the other as a princess.
The driver of the car, Howard Unger, 57, was also being treated at Jacobi.
Police believe he lost control of the vehicle after suffering a seizure or experiencing some other medical problem.
The horror happened at 4:50 p.m. when Unger’s car began speeding down Morris Park Avenue near Radcliff Avenue in the Morris Park neighborhood.
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Charlie Castagnozzi, who was with his wife and three kids, heard a car “accelerate.’’
“I turned around and I saw that [the driver] hit the car in front of him,’’ he said.
Castagnozzi said the vehicle then sideswiped a bus before crashing through a metal fence and winding up in the front yard of a home.
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