The German tourist killed in a grisly hit-and-run in Midtown had been in New York City with her husband to celebrate their 23rd anniversary, a close pal told The Post on Thursday — as the alleged unlicensed motorist who mowed the couple down faced a judge for the first time.
Mohammed Abouzaid, 40, allegedly claimed he didn’t know he’d hit anyone after cops caught up with him and arrested him over the Wednesday afternoon crash that killed and nearly decapitated 50-year-old Alexandra Sabine Lewalter Maric and left her husband, Udo Lewalter, 55, with a head injury.
“Alex was always cheerful and full of life,” longtime friend Udo Meixner, who knew the victim since she was 16, said in a phone interview in German, remembering the slain Apple employee as a loyal and devoted friend.
“I never saw her have a bad day,” he said. “Throughout the years and decades it was always important for her to stay in touch. She never forgot a birthday and always congratulated me.”…