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The best way to avoid the consequences of killing somebody in America is with a car. It also helps if you're a 20-year police veteran.
Demetris Ortega, a 20-year veteran of the Columbus Division of Police and resident of the South Side, pled guilty on Thursday to getting blackout drunk in the early hours of April 20th, 2022, and leaving the scene of the fatal crash.
The woman in question, 27-year-old Naimo Mahdi Abdirahaman, was walking through a well-lit crosswalk at the time of the co…