The family of Matthew “Matty” Zaborowski believes the legal system has failed them in holding responsible the person who caused a Sept. 12 traffic accident at West 11th and Sassafras in Erie that cost the 41-year-old city man his life.
That person, Erie police charge in two traffic citations filed in early February, is one of the police’s own.
Erie police on Feb. 4 filed summary traffic citations against Shawn Stafford, 55, a police sergeant and seven-year member of the Erie Bureau of Police, for careless driving-unintentional death and for failure to stop at a red signal for his accused actions in the accident. Investigators accuse him of failing to stop for a red light while traveling south on Sassafras Street as he responded to a call with his patrol vehicle’s lights activated, but without its siren on…