Evan Potts, who was accused of killing Ian Sharinn with his Nissan Altima in a road rage incident in Long Beach in 2009, was acquitted of second-degree manslaughter charges. However Potts, who was 22 at the time of the incident, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide, and faces four years in prison at his sentencing on August 16, ABC 7 reports. At the time, a witness described that Potts ran over Sharinn "like a cat in the road…I heard his head rattling in the undercarriage." more ›

The off-duty school safety agent who was arrested for drunk driving and aggravated vehicular homicide after a Thursday night crash was actually previously sued by the passenger who was killed. The Post reports that driver Mariely Gonzalez was sued by Veronica Cintron "over a May 2009 car smash-up in which she suffered 'serious and permanent injuries,' said Alex Goldin, one of her lawyers. In that case, Gonzalez rear-ended another car." Cintron had been sitting in the front passenger seat and was declared dead at the scene; another passenger, Darrell Ford, suffered a broken spinal cord. Gonzalez, who suffered a broken leg and back, was also charged with refusing a Breathalyzer (police drew her blood at the hospital). more ›

WABC 7 reports, "An off-duty school safety agent was allegedly drunk when she slammed her car into a tree in the Bronx, killing one passenger and injuring another. Police say 25-year-old Mariely Gonzalez lost control of her 1999 Toyota Camry, traveling westbound on Orchard Beach Road in Pelham Bay Park just after 9:30 p.m. Thursday night." Gonzalez's front seat passenger was killed while the back seat passenger suffered a fractured spinal cord. Gonzalez, who broke her back and leg, faces charges of "aggravated vehicular homicide, operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, reckless driving, and refusal to take a breathalyzer." more ›

Carlos Zelayo is suing Madison Square Garden for continuing to serve a visibly drunk off-duty cop at a college basketball game, before the man left the arena and killed Zelayo's son and put his wife in a coma, from which she hasn't emerged. Kevin Freibott is the Jersey City cop currently serving an 11-year sentence for vehicular homicide. He killed two-year-old Jose Carlo Zelayo (pictured) on the Pulaski Skyway. more ›