Teen driver who killed Yonkers police sergeant gets 2 years of probation

Editor's Note: This video was originally released on December 6, 2022.

YONKERS, NY (PIX11) – He had been charged with criminally negligent homicide, but the young driver who killed Sgt. Frank Gualdino, a veteran officer with the Yonkers Police Department, was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation and 480 hours of community service.

The victim's family made a very public statement calling on the New York State Legislature to rewrite its age-raising laws.

About 150 current and retired officers from the 600-member department stood behind Lisa Gualdino, the widow of their fallen colleague, as she read a statement.

“If this incident had occurred several years earlier, laws would have been in place that would have held this individual responsible, as an adult, for causing the death of my husband and the father of my children,” said Lisa Gualdino.

“However, in New York State, legislation in recent years has raised the age of responsibility to 18.”

She called on state lawmakers to pass exemptions in cases like the one her family is facing.

On December 1, 2022, Sgt. Gualdino was killed after a speeding sports car hit him. The driver was 16 years old at the time.

He is now 17 years old. He was sentenced to two years of probation, with restrictions including curfews and being prohibited from entering a motor vehicle.

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