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Danmel

(4,915 posts) Thu Nov 25, 2021, 11:31 PM Nov 2021

Off Duty Newark Police Officer kills pedestrian, takes body home to mom [View all]

A Newark police officer was charged with reckless vehicular homicide, prosecutors said on Wednesday, accusing the man of hitting a pedestrian with his personal car and briefly taking the body home, where he discussed with his mother what to do with it.

The officer, Louis Santiago of the Newark Police Department, was off duty when his Honda Accord drifted into the northbound shoulder of the Garden State Parkway around 3 a.m. on Nov. 1, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release issued on Wednesday. His car struck Damian Z. Dymka, 29, a nurse from Bergen County.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/nyregion/new-jersey-police-officer-car-home.html

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Off Duty Newark Police Officer kills pedestrian, takes body home to mom [View all] Danmel Nov 2021 OP

Mommy I have a question, what should we do with this body? sarcasmo Nov 2021 #1

or "oh crap, mommy! i did it again! please don't be mad" nt orleans Nov 2021 #10

"Mom, where is your recipe for dissolving this corpse?" dalton99a Nov 2021 #2

What the hell did he think mom would do about it? Wingus Dingus Nov 2021 #3

The wrong in this is so deep. Where do you even start? KentuckyWoman Nov 2021 #4

"Mother! Oh god, mother! Blood! Blood!" Grokenstein Nov 2021 #5

Insane. johnp3907 Nov 2021 #6

He's seen Goodfellas too many times UnderThisLaw Nov 2021 #7

Our "transportation system" is so easy for those in cars, and so dangerous to Ron Green Nov 2021 #8

His Dad is brass on the same PD. nt Progressive Jones Nov 2021 #9

To quote you on another thread: another region raises its ugly head. nt BlackSkimmer Nov 2021 #21

Yeah, but NJ isn't a Red State. Red States are a huge problem. nt Progressive Jones Nov 2021 #22

Nothing good ever happens at 3:00 a.m. King_Klonopin Nov 2021 #11

That would be a best guess. 2naSalit Nov 2021 #12

The victim was wearing a werewolf costume Larissa Nov 2021 #14

How often do police find a dead guy dressed up as a werewolf in the back seat of a car? Kaleva Nov 2021 #16

WOW, hard to believe ANYONE could do such a thing!!! 😱 🙄 nt Raine Nov 2021 #13

Another example of why Aliens have black-balled humans and won't contact us. Kaleva Nov 2021 #15

So he was wearing a werewolf costume FelineOverlord Nov 2021 #17

The Garden State Parkway is a restricted highway RAB910 Nov 2021 #18

This is one of the most bizarre stories I've read peggysue2 Nov 2021 #19

Well, exactly. Call 911, stay at the scene. If he had done so, there would likely be Nay Nov 2021 #20