MAN WHO KILLED "THE ORIGINAL 50 CENT" WANTED FOR KILLING A HASIDIC COUPLE IN CAR CRASH

He's sorry, scared and ready to surrender — just not yet.

Julio (Wemo) Acevedo, the most wanted man in New York since he killed a Brooklyn couple and their newborn son in a hit-and-run wreck, told the Daily News that he’s done with life on the lam.

“I’m going to turn myself in,” Acevedo vowed Tuesday in a phone call arranged by a friend. “I have to get an attorney ready before I turn myself in.”

But even after speaking with a lawyer, the nervous suspect remained on the streets Tuesday as a manhunt continued. A source said Acevedo was having trouble raising cash to pay the lawyer. The NYPD hasn’t heard from him.

The 44-year-old father of two, whose rap sheet includes a manslaughter conviction and a DWI arrest last month, sent belated condolences to the victims’ families.

Nachman Glauber and his pregnant wife, Raizel, were killed at 12:30 a.m. Sunday when a speeding BMW driven by Acevedo plowed into a livery cab taking the couple to a Brooklyn hospital, cops said.

Their tiny son, delivered more than two months prematurely after his mom’s death, died Monday morning.

“My heart goes out to them,” Acevedo said in the conference call with The News. “I didn’t know they died until I saw the news.”

The one-time lover of the man Acevedo shot to death in 1987, Kelvin Martin, told The News the Hasidic family would still be alive if the killer was where he belonged — behind bars.

“He didn’t do enough time,” said the woman named Precious, who had a daughter with Martin — a Brooklyn street legend known as “50 Cent.”

“If he did the time he should have done, he would still be in jail,” she said of Acevedo. “He wouldn’t have the opportunity to kill these people (in the crash).”

Martin, the inspiration behind Queens-born rapper Curtis Jackson’s moniker, 50 Cent, was immortalized in “The Infamous Times, Volume I: The Original 50 Cent” — a 2005 documentary.

Acevedo shot him to death at the Albany Houses in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1987. He was initially convicted of murder in Martin’s death, but eventually convinced a judge he was forced to kill. “He was a 16-year-old kid,” said pal Derrick Hamilton, who arranged the phone call with The News. “They made him kill his best friend.”

The murder conviction was tossed in 1997 after an informant corroborated Acevedo’s story, with the killer pleading to manslaughter in return for a sentence of time served.

Acevedo will probably face charges ranging from leaving the scene of an accident to second-degree manslaughter in the crash that wiped out the innocent family.

But first he needs to turn himself in — or the NYPD needs to put him in handcuffs. Investigators believe Acevedo is still in the city, sources said. The police also contacted people in South Carolina and New Jersey as they chased down leads in the case.

The fugitive, in his talk with The News, said he was running for his life when the BMW slammed into the cab carrying the Glaubers.

Seconds earlier, Acevedo claimed, an old street foe opened fire on his car as he drove through Williamsburg. The BMW, which belonged to a friend, was soon flying at double the 30-mph speed limit, cops said. “I was trying to get away, because I was scared of someone shooting at me,” he said.

Police tossed cold water on that account, saying there were no reports of gunfire in the area at that time.

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