Usually firefighters rescued people, but the 31-year-old Daniel Coppola from long island did the exact opposite. Death knocking your car, 18-year-old student Paramjit Parmar, he fled the scene of the accident and tried to cover their tracks.
Police searched the culprit of the fatal accident a month and a half, and finally managed to detain — not without the help of the public disturbed a cynical act of an employee of the FDNY.
The tragedy occurred on the evening of November 9 at Hempstead highway. Coppola pickup truck crashed into the SUV Parmar, and when the girl got out of the car, he hit her. According to witnesses, a fire about 10 meters dragged the victim on the hood of his pickup and moved it when she fell.
The girl who studied to be a dentist at the medical College at Adelphi University, died just a few days before 19th birthday.
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After the deadly crash Cappola removed from the machine up the crime and was a fugitive from justice. Soon, however, his identity is established by recording with CCTV cameras and eyewitness accounts.
On Christmas eve, Nassau County police found the murderer in Lavington. He was in prison, where he had been for armed robbery of a supermarket Target.
Now its added charges of manslaughter 2nd degree, leaving the scene of the accident and distortion of evidence. The verdict in his case will issue in the first district court in Hempstead on Wednesday.
In the fire Department of new York Cappola worked in the group for the management of emergencies.
