NYPD sergeant guilty of manslaughter for killing Bronx man with cooler
This was a trial with no jury, so the final verdict was entirely up to the judge.
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A judge found an NYPD sergeant guilty of manslaughter for killing Bronx man with a cooler.
NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran was found guilty of manslaughter and not guilty of criminally negligent homicide by a judge on Friday.
Duran was on trial for the death of Eric Duprey during a botched drug bust in Kingsbridge Heights back in August 2023.
The manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of five to 15 years in prison. Criminally negligent homicide carries a maximum sentence of 1-1/3 to four years in prison.
He is set to be sentenced on March 19.
The incident was caught on surveillance video. It showed Duran, in plain clothes, throwing a cooler at Duprey as he tried to get away on a motorbike.
Duprey was knocked off and killed.
Duprey's family says he died an "unfair death," and leaders of Black Lives Matter Greater New York claim that the entire narcotics operation was for another person.
Duran pleaded not guilty.
