(MCT) — NEW YORK — They were a young couple expecting their first baby, so when 21-year-old Raizy Glauber felt queasy, her husband, Nathan, also 21, called a cab to take them to the hospital. At an intersection in Brooklyn early Sunday, their taxi was struck by a BMW, whose occupants fled on foot and left the couple to die.

Hours later, police were still searching for the man and woman who ran from the scene, while relatives of the dead mourned and prayed that the couple’s baby boy, delivered three months premature by an emergency Cesarean section, would survive.