Mother of Teen Killed in Accident Wants No Prison Time for Driver

Brandon Giordano's mother has been waiting 20 months to learn the fate of a man who was driving the car in which her 15-year-old son was killed. 

And now that it appears a final outcome of the case is near, Giordano's mother, Angela Borrelli, says she hopes the driver will be spared prison time.

"I think that he’s already living in his own internal jail," Borrelli told the Valley Independent Sentinel when asked what kind of punishment Eric Ramirez, 20, who was close friends with Giordano, should receive.

"This is like his brother," she told the Sentinel. "Brandon and him were very, very close. He’s already suffering every day. What good is jail going to do? The emotional hell he’s living in for the rest of his life is enough.”

The accident happened on March 9, 2012, when Ramirez fled from a Seymour police officer, who was attempting to pull him over for having illegal blue lights beaming from the undercarriage of his 2000 Ford Mustang. Ramirez led the officer on a chase from Seymour into Oxford on Route 67 before turning off his lights and driving down Old State Road 67 at a high rate of speed. The car hit an embankment, launched nearly 60 feet in the air and hit the side of a building before landing upside down. Giordano was pronounced dead on the scene. Ramirez, who was 19 at the time of the accident, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, as did 16-year-old Dion Major.

Ramirez has been charged with felony misconduct with a motor vehicle, reckless driving, engaging police in pursuit and two equipment citations. He appeared briefly Wednesday at Derby Superior Court, where his case was continued to Dec. 16. 

A plea deal is being discussed in the case but the details have not been made public.