NYPD Sergeant Testifies in Fatal Cooler-Tossing Murder Trial

NYPD Sergeant Eric Duran testifies in court, claiming he threw a cooler at a fleeing scooter rider to protect fellow officers. He faces up to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.

Duran faces up to 25 years behind bars if convicted of the top fee of second-degree murder, thought the court might likewise locate him guilty of a lower rap of criminally negligent homicide, which carries a max of 4 years behind bars.

The police officer had been monitoring an undercover buy-and-bust operation on Aqueduct Avenue near West 190th Road in Kingsbridge Heights when prosecutors charge he recklessly got the full Igloo cooler and chucked it at Duprey, 30, as he ran away the scene on his mechanized scooter.

The Sergeant’s Defense and Testimony

An NYPD sergeant on test for fatally tossing a beverage colder at a scooter-riding medication suspicious took the stand to safeguard himself Monday– indicating he was attempting to conserve other policemans’ lives at the time.

“I remained in shock, I was distressed, and I was wishing that I was wrong concerning what I saw with his injuries, I’m just hoping that I was wrong. I was wishing that somebody eventually would certainly state he’s okay … I was simply hoping that I was wrong.”

And I right away screamed out, ‘Obtain a bus. Obtain a bus. Hurry the bus, now.

Prosecution Questions Use of Lethal Force

Prosecutors with AG Letitia James’ office smoked him on cross evaluation concerning whether he required to utilize lethal force to defuse the situation, instead of just step out of the means and alert his coworkers to do the same.