NY cop pleads guilty for killing Haitian woman
Published:Thursday | September 9, 2010 | 5:12 PM
A drunken New York Police Department (NYPD) cop who killed a Haitian woman last year while driving has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter.
Officer Andrew Kelly has admitted to a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge that he was intoxicated on the night of the accident.
He faces 90 days behind bars.
Authorities say the policeman was found reeking of alcohol, with slurred speech and bloodshot eyes, after his Jeep struck 33-year-old Vionique Valnord, the daughter of a Haitian minister in Brooklyn.
Valnord was leaving a wedding on the morning of September 28, last year in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn.
The 32-year-old man was charged with driving while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter after prosecutors claimed that he and three friends, including another off-duty cop, were driving home after an evening of drinking and watching sports on TV.
In addition to the 90 days behind bars, Kelly faces five years probation and will also attend an alcohol treatment programme.
He resigned from the NYPD last Friday.