Driver wanted in double fatal hit-and-run in Newark surrenders to police

NEWARK (WABC) -- The driver wanted in a double fatal hit-and-run in Newark over the weekend has surrendered to police.

David Zapata-Vera turned himself in to the authorities on Tuesday.

Surveillance video showed the moments the 26-year-old slammed into two women as they crossed Park Avenue and North 7th Street in Newark on Saturday night.

Mariana Elizabeth Valverde Beltran, 58, of Elizabeth and Maria Isabel DeLosAngeles Salgado Ayala, 61, of Newark, were both pronounced dead at the hospital.

The two friends had just left a World Cup watch party when they were hit in the crosswalk.

The car went barreling through the intersection and the two were thrown airborne.

"The light was changing, this side was red, this side was yellow, I don't know if he was drunk, but anyway he put the gas and that's what happens," a witness Manuel Candelaria said.

After the driver of what appeared to be a red sedan slammed into the two women, the driver kept going.

Zapata-Vera faces a long list of charges, including vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly crash.

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