Retired NYPD Detective Charged in Bridge Shooting Death

Retired New York Police Department detective Victor Romero has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Koran Irvine on the George Washington Bridge, police said. The shooting took place Tuesday evening, October 20, and investigators are treating it as an apparent road-rage incident. Irvine, 46, was found unconscious in his vehicle on the bridge’s upper level after Port Authority police responded to a one-vehicle crash shortly after 7 p.m. He was taken to a hospital in New Jersey, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities reported no other injuries. Police identified Romero, 62, as the suspect and said he was charged with murder after being taken into custody Wednesday. Romero retired from the NYPD in 2001. The reporting does not establish what evidence supports the charge, and no response from Romero or a lawyer representing him was reported. Police have described the shooting as an apparent road-rage incident, but the circumstances leading up to it have not been established publicly. Law-enforcement sources told reporters that video showed Irvine’s car nearly colliding with another driver shortly before the shooting. Another account, also attributed to sources, said...