Markham man who drove impaired, killing off-duty YRP officer, receives 6-year sentence
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A Markham man who drove drunk with a G2 licence, killing an off-duty York Regional Police officer in a 2022 head-on crash, has been sentenced to six years in prison.
A Markham man who drove drunk with only a G2 licence, causing a head-on collision that killed off-duty York Regional Police (YRP) officer Travis Gillespie, has been sentenced to six years in a penitentiary.
Haoju Zhou was found guilty of impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death last October after a judge-alone trial.
Along with the six-year prison sentence, Justice Mark Edwards imposed a 10-year driving prohibition which goes into effect from the day of sentence.
Edwards said that Zhou, a citizen of China who was an international student at York University at the time of the crash, could be deported at the expiry of his sentence.
The incident took place on Sept. 14, 2022, around 6 a.m., when Gillespie was driving along Major Mackenzie Drive in Markham on his way to work at YRP 2 District in Richmond Hill where he worked as a police constable.
Zhou, who was driving in his father’s Porsche Cayenne SUV, was travelling eastbound.
As he reached the crest of a hill, Zhou veered into westbound lanes of traffic and slammed into Gillespie’s car, causing it to spin counterclockwise and hit a dump truck.
Gillespie, 38, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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