Victor Romero, 62, a retired detective accused of shooting Con Edison employee Corann Irvin on the George Washington Bridge (GWB), was indicted by a grand jury on a second-degree murder charge on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Romero's next court appearance is Monday, Nov. 23. At his first appearance on Thursday, Oct. 22, the charge was reduced to manslaughter and bail was set at $1 million.
According to PIX11, Victor Romero, 62, a retired New York City Police Department (NYPD) detective accused of shooting a Con Edison employee on the George Washington Bridge (GWB), has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said that day that a grand jury returned a true bill on the second-degree murder charge submitted by prosecutors. As a result, the earlier manslaughter charge was changed to second-degree murder.
Romero made his first appearance in a Manhattan court. PIX11 reported that at the time, the original murder charge in connection with the death of Corann Irvin was reduced to manslaughter. The judge also granted prosecutors' request for $1 million bail. His next appearance is Monday, Nov. 23, when an arraignment will be held in State Supreme Court.
Romero was arrested several days after the shooting led to the closure of the GWB. According to PIX11, investigators tracked a black Range Rover through surveillance camera footage. The vehicle's license plate was initially linked to a business, but investigators confirmed through a report from a previous incident that the driver was Romero.
The victim, Irvin, was 46. An attorney for the family claimed that authorities gave Romero preferential treatment by scrubbing his photos from the internet and carrying out what the attorney called a "modified perp walk." The attorney believes this approach may have made Romero appear more human to the judge. Irvin's GoFundMe page describes him as a man full of devotion to life, love and the people dear to him, and says he is survived by his wife and two children.