Ex-NYPD Detective Faces $1 Million Bond in George Washington Bridge Road-Rage Killing
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 23
Ex-NYPD Detective Faces $1 Million Bond in George Washington Bridge Road-Rage Killing
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 23
Summary
A New York judge set Victor Romero’s bond at $1 million after prosecutors said the 62-year-old ex-NYPD detective shot Koran Irvine, 46, during a road-rage encounter on the George Washington Bridge.
Surveillance video allegedly shows Romero tailgating Irvine after a near collision, pulling alongside his moving car and firing one shot from the driver’s seat through the rear passenger window into Irvine’s shoulder.
Prosecutors said Romero then sped away in a Range Rover assigned to him by QVT Financial, crossed into New Jersey and drove toward Rockland County without calling 911 or surrendering.
Detectives found Romero and the employer-owned SUV at his Manhattan workplace the next day, recovered a revolver he said he carried daily, and later seized two more handguns from his home for forensic testing.
Romero, who now worked as a driver and private security guard for QVT, is due back in court Oct. 27 as Irvine’s family mourns the Con Edison worker killed in what authorities say began as a near crash.