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Jacob Chubalashvili was arraigned yesterday on charges including second-degree manslaughter for crashing into an Acura, killing its two passengers immediately in Forest Hills on Tuesday morning. The Queens DA's office released some of the 17-year-old unlicensed driver's statements:

[On the morning of August 5] Chubalashvili said, “I just took the car, I didn’t have permission to take it. I smoked some marijuana before I took the car... I remember taking the car, it’s a Mercedes and jetting down the road and the next thing I remember is waking up in the hospital.”

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The deaths of a couple immediately killed in their car when an unlicensed 17-year-old driver ran through a red light on a Grand Central Parkway service road has upset and outraged their neighbors. Jacob Chubalashvili, who stole the keys to a Mercedes from a family friend who was supposed to be watching him, faces many charges, including second degree manslaughter, speeding, and driving without a license after causing the crash that killed Ki and Hyek Young Kim Tuesday morning. The Kims' neighbor told NY1, "It's terrible, it's just terrible. It could happen to me it could happen to my family. It's just sad that things like this happen and that 17-year-old kid is going to get minimal time." Chubalashvili also told the police he had been smoking marijuana before driving.

It turns out that the driver of a Mercedes Benz had barreled through a red light on the Grand Central Parkway yesterday when it hit the Acura, killing the Acura's two passengers. And further, the driver did not have a license and had been smoking marijuana.