Chesterfield man gets 1 year in jail for killing teacher in drunken driving crash - STLtoday.com
CLAYTON • A Chesterfield man who was drunk last year when he crashed his car head-on with another vehicle — killing a Chesterfield teacher and injuring her son — was sentenced today to a year in jail. Louis County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Prebil also sentenced Patrick J. McCormick to five years of probation, and ordered him to wear an alcohol-monitoring device for a year after his release. McCormick pleaded guilty in June in St. Louis County Circuit Court to first-degree involuntary manslaughter and second-degree assault in connection with a 2011 head-on crash that caused the death of a Whitfield School teacher. 26 when he drove his 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe across the center line of Wildhorse Creek Road near Riverdale Drive and slammed into a 1992 Infiniti G20, police said. The driver of the Infiniti, Janet Esrock, 50, of Chesterfield and a math teacher at the Whitfield School in Creve Coeur, died Sept. Police say McCormick failed a sobriety test and that results on McCormick's blood show he had a blood-alcohol content of 0. 14 percent at 12:30 a. m. , about two hours after crash, police said. With good behavior, McCormick is eligible to be released from jail in 9½ months, authorities said. Esrock's husband, Chuck Esrock, said in court today that he believes McCormick's crashing and killing his wife was not an accident but a deliberate act. Source: www.stltoday.com
