NEW YORK — A 29-year-old Long Island man was arrested in connection with a deadly seven-vehicle crash he allegedly hit and run from last week, authorities say, and was allegedly caught with a stolen car.
Suffolk County Police say investigators identified Christopher Macri, of Copiague, as the man who fled the scene of the March 4 crash on Sunrise Highway in Holbrook. It happened shortly before dawn last Saturday.
Officers located Macri Wednesday in Copiague in what they say was a stolen vehicle. The 29-year-old man was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident, as well as grand theft and criminal possession of stolen property for allegedly stealing the vehicle in the same community a day earlier, police said.
The circumstances of Saturday’s crash remain under investigation, but detectives have been investigating it as a seven-vehicle crash in which a man was killed and another man, allegedly Macri, ran away.
Responding officers found a mess of vehicles and injured drivers. The man who died was identified as Kelvin Saula-Bueno, a 22-year-old from Bay Shore. Three other drivers were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
Macri, who was driving a 2012 Mazda at the time of the accident, is expected to be arraigned in First District Court in Central Islip on Thursday. Attorney information for him was not immediately available.
The investigation is ongoing.
