Aggravated criminally negligent homicide · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 125.11 Aggravated criminally negligent homicide.
A person is guilty of aggravated criminally negligent homicide when, with criminal negligence, he or she causes the death of a police officer or peace officer where such officer was in the course of performing his or her official duties and the defendant knew or reasonably should have known that such victim was a police officer or peace officer.
Aggravated criminally negligent homicide is a class C felony.
A person commits aggravated criminally negligent homicide by causing the death of an on-duty police or peace officer through criminal negligence, while knowing or having reason to know the victim is such an officer. ★ It is a class C felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.