GWB shooting victims' family demands justice, suspect indicted | Where the case stands

A lot of people concerned, Jessica Formoso, about the George Washington Bridge and the NYPD detective retired, facing now a second-degree murder charge. When we were on the air here yesterday, anybody who was watching this broadcast yesterday, we saw Victor Romero. This was the video. We saw it here first, walking into court. At this moment, when he walks into court, he's facing a manslaughter charge. Yes. But by the end of the day, those charges were upgraded to second-degree murder. Pick it up for me. Yeah. So a grand jury around three o'clock in the afternoon, just a little bit after three o'clock, we learned that the charge was upgraded to second degree murder. You remember last week it was downgraded to manslaughter and the family of Karan Irvin was outraged. They were angry about this. And we have heard from a source in the DA's office that they had new evidence. And this is why they upgraded the charge yesterday. So he learned about this after he appeared in court. That court proceeding was about around 10 minutes long. And we are told that after he left, the three o'clock hour is when this came down. So now he's facing second degree murder right there when he's walking in yesterday. There were people outside the courthouse, the family of the victim, as well as his co-workers. We were watching this yesterday. Right. I mean, there were there were dozens of them who were inside the courtroom. And after he walked out, they they came walking out as well as well. And you can hear in that video, too. If you listen closely, we can't play it for you because there's, you know, a lot of cursing going on. But they are calling him murderer as he walks into court. Romero didn't say anything at all. You know, he kind of had no eye contact with the family as well. but later on in the day after this came down and we learned that the charges were now upgraded the family as you see right there held a rally demanding for justice so they talked a little bit about uh the fact how upset they are but also a little bit relieved because the charges were now upgraded and so the victim in this case is a man named Corin Irvin worked for Con Edison a father, a husband. That's him right there. There he is. And so he'd worked with a lot of Con Ed employees, also showed up. And his sister was there yesterday, right? Yes, very emotional. His sister was very emotional. It's his baby sister. That's her right there, as well as the union leader that you're about to hear from in just a second. But remember, this happened last Tuesday. It was a road rage, according to the indictment. Romero, Victor Romero, who is 62 years old. I was aggressively tailgating Irvin. Their cars almost collided as they were approaching the George Washington Bridge. And then allegedly he fired his gun, killing the father of two. All right, so let's take a listen to the sister who spoke at this rally yesterday. It was in Foley Square, right? Yep, you're going to hear first from the union leader and right after the sister. I will not accept a world where we live in when a coward of a man could chase somebody down shoot them like a coward in a car flee home wait wipe his whole entire web history clear eat dinner go to work the next day like nothing happened and then go to the authorities and we do not call that murder this is a failure of the justice system and even though today i'm proud to say those charges got back upgraded to murder satisfied are you satisfied you should be brought back and remaining look this out this is not a NYPD versus Con Edison thing this shouldn't be a racial thing you know what this should be though tell them what it is a human right or wrong thing and obviously there's the legal proceedings that have to play out yes he's going to be back in court on november 23rd and he is out on bail he posted one million dollars last friday so he was released from Rikers Island people upset that the that there was a bail right and even the family said that as well yeah even though it was one million dollars so what's what happens next so when it comes to the actual court um we will see him back in court on November 23rd the family says they will be there as well and they're obviously going to fight till the end for justice one thing that we should mention too is that the NYPD tells us that Romero has not been receiving any special treatment because he's a former cop as you heard from the family in the past and even yesterday at that rally they're saying that um he's getting special treatment from the NYPD and that is why we never got to see those images of him in the beginning when this happened it took over a week to this is the first public appearance of Victor Romero which was yesterday in the courthouse there yeah it was uh interesting to hear the the union president say there that it looked like his total online history had been wiped we don't know if that's true or not right he said that we don't know if that there was some kind of effort to make that happen um typically though you know some way or another everybody has a trail on social media somewhere somehow we usually always get like a photo or two uh but again that's all also within the investigation now we're probably going to learn more as uh he appears in court uh next month all right uh Jessica Famoso thank you very much. Appreciate your reporting this morning.