NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP/ 1010 WINS) -- A New Jersey man who was driving drunk when his car broadsided a police cruiser, killing a Perth Amboy officer, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Sean McGuirk, a 25-year-old Colonia resident, wept and asked forgiveness during Thursday's hearing in New Brunswick. He pleaded guilty in June to vehicular homicide in the August 2008 crash in Woodbridge.
The accident killed Thomas Raji, a 10-year police veteran whose wife was expecting their first child. A second officer and a prisoner they were transporting were injured.
Raji's wife Marisol -- who is also a Perth Amboy police officer -- called McGuirk's sentence fair, saying, ``I know that someday I will be able to forgive him.''
She gave birth to a daughter in March.
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