Omar admitted he was drunk when he smashed into a livery cab on Nov. 16, killing cab driver Bessy Velasquez and Panayiota Demetriou, a graduate student from Cyprus. Demetriou was only weeks away from getting her doctorate in psychology.
Omar had previously been charged with murder in a Manhattan case that stalled but remains open. He also had been ordered deported but released from immigration detention because of time limits.
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