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A drunk driver who tried to get away when he struck and killed a teenage boy was arrested after a witness forced him to return to the scene.
Michael Ettipio, 23, had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times over the legal limit when he crashed an SUV on Thursday night into 14-year-old Bryce Buchholz, who was heading home on his orange bicycle in Lancaster, New York.
Benny Kirkland, 40, a witness of the crash, tracked down the drunk driver and made him return to the accident to turn himself in to the police.
Ettipio has been charged with second-degree vehicular manslaughter, driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of a fatal accident and failure to keep right.
The driver was on his way home before 9pm after having six beers at a local tavern, according to police.
He struck the boy, an eighth-grade student at Lancaster Middle School, who had been riding his bicycle with friends and doing stunts prior to the accident.
Mr Kirkland had been returning to his own home when he saw the crash and saw Ettipio leave the area, he told the Buffalo News.
He decided to follow Ettipio, a Lancaster High School graduate with no prior criminal record, into the driveway of the drunk man's home.
Mr Kirkland forced the driver to get into his own car and he returned to the scene of the accident.
He told the newspaper: 'I grabbed him by the back of his shirt and said: Let's go.
'You're going to answer for what you did.'
Read more (includes pictures and video): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-driver-makes-return-scene.html#ixzz1u6cm56uP
Thank goodness for people like Mr. Kirkland. He deserves a medal for what he did!
Michael Ettipio, 23, had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times over the legal limit when he crashed an SUV on Thursday night into 14-year-old Bryce Buchholz, who was heading home on his orange bicycle in Lancaster, New York.
Benny Kirkland, 40, a witness of the crash, tracked down the drunk driver and made him return to the accident to turn himself in to the police.
Ettipio has been charged with second-degree vehicular manslaughter, driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of a fatal accident and failure to keep right.
The driver was on his way home before 9pm after having six beers at a local tavern, according to police.
He struck the boy, an eighth-grade student at Lancaster Middle School, who had been riding his bicycle with friends and doing stunts prior to the accident.
Mr Kirkland had been returning to his own home when he saw the crash and saw Ettipio leave the area, he told the Buffalo News.
He decided to follow Ettipio, a Lancaster High School graduate with no prior criminal record, into the driveway of the drunk man's home.
Mr Kirkland forced the driver to get into his own car and he returned to the scene of the accident.
He told the newspaper: 'I grabbed him by the back of his shirt and said: Let's go.
'You're going to answer for what you did.'
Read more (includes pictures and video): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-driver-makes-return-scene.html#ixzz1u6cm56uP
Thank goodness for people like Mr. Kirkland. He deserves a medal for what he did!
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