Middle Village man pleads guilty
to vehicular manslaughter

Kenneth Guyear, the 28-year-old Middle Village resident who mowed down two pedestrians last February while speeding in a stolen car, has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter.
Guyear pleaded guilty before Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt to first-degree vehicular manslaughter. Chin-Brandt set sentencing for February 23 and indicated she would sentence Guyear to the maximum sentence allowable under the law – 7 ½ to 15 years in state prison.
The district attorney said that, in pleading guilty, Guyear admitted that he caused the deaths of Robert Ogle, 16, and Alex Paul, 20, on February 1, 2009, as they were walking in the vicinity of 80th Street and 62nd Avenue in Middle Village by striking them with the car he was driving.
According to his own admissions, Guyear stole a 2001 silver Kia that had been left idling with the key in the ignition in the vicinity of Woodhaven Boulevard and Alderton Street and drove the vehicle at a high rate of speed to the intersection, where he struck Ogle and Paul. He then left the scene but was stopped near Dry Harbor Road and Woodhaven Boulevard by police officers who were canvassing the area.
Police noted that Guyear had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, bloodshot, watery eyes and slurred speech. An Breathalyzer test performed at the 112th Precinct indicated he had a blood alcohol level of .126. Guyear also made incriminating statements to the police, admitting that he drank five or six alcoholic beverages and took two Xanax pills.