Family of UES doorman killed by drunk NYPD officer rages during sentencing

The family of a New York doorman killed by an NYPD officer in a drunken wrong-way collision raged at the former cop as she was sentenced to up to 12 years in prison — saying she “knows the damage that drunk driving causes a family” as a law officer.“She has seen firsthand the devastation that actions can leave behind,” said Eric Boitel, whose 61-year-old father Manuel was killed in January by then-cop Tiffany Howell.“She knows that one reckless decision can take someone’s life, tear a family apart and leave loved ones carrying pain for the rest of their lives,” Eric said in a Westchester County court Wednesday as Howell received her sentence, CBS News reported.Howell, 48, was sentenced to between 4 and 12 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and second degree manslaughter in August — and begged forgiveness with a shaking voice as she learned her fate.“I know that I made a terrible decision and I know that the consequences are irreversible,” she said, according to the New York Times.“I know I shouldn’t have consumed alcohol and taken the wheel and I’m so incredibly sorry that I did,” she added.The 18-year NYPD veteran’s blood alcohol was at least .18 — more than twice the legal limit — when she was driving on the wrong side of the Taconic State Parkway around midnight on Jan.

22, and slammed head-on Manuel.Boitel, who worked at an Upper East Side apartment building, was driving home to Peekskill after work when Howell — drunk after leaving an NYPD religious association event — drove south onto the northbound lanes in Westchester County and fatally hit him.Photos from the scene showed their SUVs smashed up and nose to nose along the snow-covered Parkway median.Howell’s was suspended and then quit the NYPD within weeks of the wreck, while her attorney characterized the incident as a “stark departure from the behavior and characteristics she’s displayed her entire life” after ...