The former NYPD detective accused of shooting and killing a man in a fit of road rage on the George Washington Bridge on Tuesday was held on $1 million bail at his arraignment in Manhattan court on Thursday.
Judge Kevin McGrath sided with prosecutors in setting the high bail for 62-year-old Victor Romero, who police say shot and killed 46-year-old Koran Irvine.
Assistant District Attorney Matt Sears called it a “particularly senseless killing” as he read out the facts of the case, describing how surveillance video captured Romero’s car aggressively following Irvine’s vehicle after a near-crash as the two approached the bridge from 179th Street around 7 p.m. A few minutes later, he said Romero fired his gun from the driver’s seat, fatally striking Irvine behind his right shoulder. Romero then drove into New Jersey without stopping, Sears said…