{"id":340661,"date":"2026-09-08T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340661\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:58:27","slug":"news-12-bronx-they-never-came-back-bridgeport-couples-anniversary-trip-ends-in-deadly-orlando-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340661\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | They Never Came Back Bridgeport Couples Anniversary Trip Ends In Deadly Orlando Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An alcohol-related hit-and-run collision near SeaWorld in Orlando resulted in the death of 29-year-old Nealson Carrasquillo, of Bridgeport, and left his 23-year-old fianc\u00e9e, Jalissa Velazquez, critically injured. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say the suspect, 19-year-old Christopher Laureda, was intoxicated and deliberately ran red lights while occupants in his vehicle treated the reckless driving as a game.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Velazquez&#8217;s aunt, Francheska Velazquez, said the family is devastated.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;They went on a getaway vacation to celebrate an anniversary, and they never came back,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The family created a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-jalissa-nealson-and-their-children?attribution_id=sl%3A19eff051-fc8b-4693-b169-879105e556a2&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1788525924&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp30-control&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=sms&amp;cp_src=m\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> to help pay for funeral and medical expenses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alcohol-related hit-and-run collision near SeaWorld in Orlando resulted in the death of 29-year-old Nealson Carrasquillo, of Bridgeport,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-340661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}