STONY POINT – A man, who is in the United States illegally and was unlicensed to drive a car, struck a killed a mother of three on Christmas Eve in Stony Point and with the state’s new bail reforms to take effect formally on January 1, 2020, he was released following arraignment.
The incident occurred on Route 9W and Filors Lane.
State Assemblyman Colin Schmitt (R, New Windsor) in whose district the fatality occurred, voted against the changes in bail policy that allow suspects in incidents like this to be released instead of being remanded to county jail on bail.
“Due to new state criminal justice changes [he] has been released and is freely roaming our community, able to drive illegally again at any moment,” Schmitt said.
The freshman lawmaker said the governor and Democrats in the state legislature “who rammed these criminal justice changes through, have allowed a confessed killer to walk free. One family is in mourning this Christmas and all North Rockland families are at risk due to this confessed killer being released back on the streets with no monitoring or accountability for his actions.”
Schmitt said, “It is time to put an immediate freeze on these new criminal justice changes and repeal them before tragedy strikes again and more confessed killers walk free.”
