Cheektowaga woman pleads guilty to vehicular manslaughter

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Cheektowaga woman has admitted to causing the death of a pedestrian in December 2025.

Jennifer A. Ortiz, 57 pleaded guilty Monday in Erie County Court to one count of Vehicular Manslaughter in the Second Degree.

Investigators say Ortiz was driving southbound on Kensington Avenue in the Town of Amherst on December 20, 2025 when she hit a 70-year-old female pedestrian near the intersection of Harlem Road…

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