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HARTFORD, Conn. — A 20-year-old Connecticut man accused of inflicting a automobile crash that killed a Hartford police officer and severely wounded that officer’s companion pleaded responsible on Tuesday to a number of expenses, together with manslaughter.
Richard Barrington, an 18-year-old highschool junior on the time of the 2023 crash, will subsequent seem in courtroom on June 20 for a sentencing listening to. Apart from manslaughter, he has pleaded responsible to first-degree assault and interfering with a police officer, his lawyer Cameron Atkinson stated.
Authorities stated Barrington fled a visitors cease performed by different officers, drove by means of two purple lights and smashed into the passenger side of another cruiser that was responding to an unrelated emergency name on Sept. 6, 2023.
Officer Robert “Bobby” Garten, 34, an eight-year Hartford police veteran whose father retired as a detective on the pressure, died from his accidents, police stated. Garten’s companion, Officer Brian Kearney, was severely injured and was later launched from a hospital.
Barrington was initially charged with motor vehicle-related crimes associated to the visitors cease. Authorities later added charges of first-degree manslaughter, first-degree assault, driving below the affect and different alleged crimes.
Requested to touch upon Barrington’s responsible pleas, Atkinson stated, “We’re gonna save all of our feedback for Choose (David) Gold on the sentencing listening to.”
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