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A speeding Staten Island driver discovered his 23-year-old pregnant fiancee was killed in a car accident while appearing in court for manslaughter.
Adem Nikeziq, 30, collapsed in court on Monday after being told moments before his fiancee Adriana Sylmetaj and their unborn child had died after he crashed a Dodge Challenger while driving around 100 mph on Sunday for the morning.
Nikeziq appeared in court crying in a hospital gown and in a wheelchair, photos obtained by the new york post office presented.
“Nobody told him that his fiancée and her baby had passed away,” attorney Mark Fonte told the news outlet. ‘When I told her, she burst into tears, sobbed. At first he was in complete disbelief.
Nikeziq was charged with manslaughter, drink driving, criminally negligent homicide and vehicular assault.
Adriana Sylmetaj and her unborn baby were killed at 4:45 a.m. Sunday morning after her fiancé crashed into a pole. Adem Nikeziq, 30, cried in court after finding out his fiancee died in an accident
Nikeziq was allegedly drunk when he crashed the car while traveling over 100 mph
Prosecutors explained in court how Sylmetaj’s body was found at the scene when the police arrived.
“They found her at the intersection,” said Nicholas Agostino, an assistant district attorney. ‘His severed leg of hers was found 20 feet beyond her body. Her unborn child, ripped from her body, was found 20 feet beyond her leg.
Nikeziq claimed that a car had intercepted it when it hit a utility pole around 5am on Sunday morning, causing the vehicle to break into three pieces.
Agostino alleged that Nikesiq was drinking when the accident occurred and that he was driving at high speed.
He will be held on $400,000 cash bond and is expected to return to court on Thursday.
Sylmetaj and Nikesiq were expecting a daughter in April.
Adriana Sylmetaj’s brother said how excited his sister was to be a mother.
“She was excited when she found out she was going to be a mother. It was something new to her. She couldn’t wait to see the baby born,’ her brother, Al Sylmetaj, told the New York Daily News.
“They were thinking of names, but I don’t think they have made any decisions,” he added. They were planning a baby shower.
Pictures of the wrecked car emerged after the pregnant woman was killed. Prosecutors explained in court how Sylmetaj’s body was found at the scene when the police arrived. The baby had been torn from her.
Adriana Sylmetaj was ejected from the car when it collided with a utility pole around 5am Sunday morning, causing the vehicle to break into three pieces.
The brother of Adriana Sylmetaj, 23, who died along with their unborn daughter in a high-speed car crash on Staten Island, has spoken of his sister’s excitement about her pregnancy.
Nikeziq has a rough driving record, including a 2017 arrest for drunk driving and driving on a suspended license, police sources told the Daily News. In 2019 he was also arrested for driving on a suspended license and resisting arrest.
Sylmetaj’s brother said that Nikeziq did not seem trustworthy and that he often got drunk after his father’s death.
“I had a feeling that the outcome was going to be like this,” Al said. “Every time he showed up, he was under the influence, not that he was uncontrollable, but how he expressed himself.”
“He always asked me if I wanted to go for a drink,” he said. “He had just passed my birthday and he was asking me out for a drink, but I said no thanks.”
Sylmetaj and Nikesiq, who often got drunk, his brother says, were expecting a daughter in April.
The Albanian couple was traveling south on Hylan Boulevard in New Dorp at 4:44 a.m. when Nikesiq lost control. The vehicle struck a barrier wall before spinning and crashing into a wooden utility pole, police said.
The severity of the impact was reported to have caused Sylmetaj to be thrown from the car and pronounced dead at the scene.
Nikeziq, a county resident, was taken to Staten Island University Hospital North after police noticed he was drunk, the spokesman said.
In a tribute posted to Sylmetaj online, Nikeziq was described as “an embarrassment to the Albanian community.”
“He’s going to be gone for the rest of his life and that’s still not good enough for that piece of shit,” a grieving relative of Sylmetaj told the Post outside his home on Sunday.
“They couldn’t save the baby,” she said. ‘We’re never going to be okay. None of us. We have experienced a terrible tragedy.
‘I don’t understand how he [utility] the pole is still standing,’ Mario Basso, 31, owner of H20 Auto Spa near the crash site, told The Post. ‘He was hit so hard.’
The severity of the impact caused Sylmetaj to be thrown from the car. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The scene after the fatal crash, the comparison occurred when the couple was traveling at over 100 mph.
A tire removed from the vehicle is seen after