After three years, an unlicensed hit-and-run driver who police said killed an elderly Staten Island couple when he slammed into their Mercedes Benz with a stolen car will be criminally charged for his actions.
On Thursday, Prince Nesbitt-Hall, who is currently sitting in a New Jersey prison on unrelated charges, will be extradited to Staten Island where he will be indicted in the 2021 deaths of Kauser Akhund, 72, and her husband Shazad Akhund, 74.
The exact charges he’s facing were not immediately released.
Nesbitt-Hall was driving a Honda Accord that had been stolen in Rahway N.J. on Feb. 17, 2021 when he blew a stop sign at the corner of Elson St. and Lamberts Lane at about 6:20 p.m. and T-boned the couple’s luxury car, cops said.
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He sped off in the wrecked Honda, but showed up at the 121st Precinct stationhouse about a half-hour later, claiming that someone had stolen his vehicle.
The couple was removed to an area hospital, where Kauser Akhund died that night. Her husband, who was listed in critical condition at the hospital, died a short time later.
Nesbitt-Hall’s ruse quickly fell apart and police charged him with manslaughter, felony assault, leaving the scene of an accident and falsely reporting an incident.
But the Staten Island District Attorney’s office declined to prosecute the teen at the time in the hopes of finding more evidence that could put Nesbitt-Hall behind the wheel of the car that caused the carnage.
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Nesbitt-Hall lives in Rahway, N.J., and has three prior Staten Island arrests, two for petty larceny and one for grand larceny, police said. He was sitting in a New Jersey prison on an unrelated robbery charged when the grand jury voted to indict him for the 2021 car crash.
