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A New York police officer is facing vehicular manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges after he struck and killed a man with his car Wednesday while driving drunk in the Bronx.

Officer Luis Arnao, 25, was drunk when he slammed into Tyre Chisholm, 22. Initially, Arnao sped off before finally turning around and returning to the scene, reports say.

“He got hit hard,” said Devine Douglas, 45, a livery driver. “He flew up in the air. His shoes flew off with his socks still in them.”

Read more at the New York Daily News.

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