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A New Jersey woman is facing 12 to 24 years behind bars for driving drunk into oncoming traffic on Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania leaving three people dead, authorities said.
Priscilla Cortez, 34, of Camden, was heading southbound on the highway when she struck a car carrying Ryan Connell, 28, Leanne Popson, 35, both of the Levittown area, and Lucas Gelatko, 36, of Yardley, near mile marker 33 around 1:40 a.m. April 1, 2020, according to the Bucks County District Attorney s Office.
All three victims in the Bensalem crash had children, authorities said.
Surveillance tapes showed Cortez had been driving 69 miles per hour when she crashed in a 55 mph zone, authorities said.
“He had never harmed a person. He certainly didn’t deserve this.”
According to the grand jury testimony, O’Boyle’s mother said he had begun complaining about pain in his jaw in February of 2019. In September of last year, Sowa treated him for the pain, Weintraub said.
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Joseph O Boyle shown in a police mug shot.
However, he subsequently complained “incessantly” to family members that his jaw pain had gotten worse and “improperly, incorrectly and in a misguided way” blamed Sowa, the district attorney said.
O’Boyle went on to kill Sowa in a “poetic, perverse irony,” motivated by a “jaw for a jaw” view of revenge, Weintraub said. The 22-year-old was also charged with assaulting a detective during the course of the investigation into Sowa’s killing.
A Middletown man has had his charges upgraded to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his son last month in their apartment.
The Bucks County District Attorney s Office said in a news release Wednesday that investigators determined Jorddan Thornton s 2-year-old son accessed a loaded firearm and shot himself in the head with it on Dec. 2.
County detectives and Middletown police had been trying to determine how Thornton s son was shot since the incident occurred.
Thornton is charged with involuntary manslaughter and endangering child welfare, both of which are felonies. Previously he had only been charged with endangering as the investigation continued.
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A 61-year-old man was killed after his SUV became pinned under a freight-line tractor trailer on Route 309 Monday night in Bucks County.
The man s Honda CRV had collided around 9:45 p.m. near Mine Road in Springfield Township, on the southbound side of the highway, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Nathan Branosky said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and the highway s southbound side was closed until just before 6 a.m.
The man s identity was not being released.
The crash was being investigated by the State Police Dublin barracks, with assistance from Troop M Collision Analysis Reconstruction Unit, Troop M Forensic Services Unit, Bucks County District Attorneys Office and the Bucks County Coroner’s Office.
BRISTOL TOWNSHIP Detectives with the Bristol Township Police Department and the Bucks County District Attorney s Office continue to investigate the shooting death of a young man in Bristol Township on Wednesday night, Dec. 23.
The victim has been identified as Shaquille Love, 21 of Bristol Township. An autopsy determined Love died of a single gunshot wound and the manner of death was homicide.
Bristol Township police were dispatched at 7:08 p.m. on Dec. 23 to the area of Edgely Road and Marion Avenue for a reported shooting. There, police found a Chrysler 200 stopped in the northbound lane of Edgely Road with the driver dead inside.