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Grand Jury indicts captain of 60-foot princess for killing fisherman

by Shaun Towne 9 Dec 2017 07:47 PST
The bigger of the two boats involved in the crash © WPRI / Perry Russom

A New Jersey boat captain is being charged with killing a Connecticut man by causing a crash off the coast of Westerly more than two years ago.

A grand jury handed up an indictment Wednesday charging Cooper "Chick" Bacon with seaman's manslaughter.The indictment alleges Bacon was operating his 60-foot yacht on autopilot and not paying attention when he crashed into Walter Krupinski's 23-foot fishing boat in Sept. 2015.

Krupinski, 81, of Stonington, died from injuries suffered in the crash. Bacon was not injured. Bacon's yacht was en route from Newport to Stanford, Connecticut and traveling about 25 knots when it began to overtake Krupinski's boat, according to the indictment. The two vessels then collided on the waters off Napatree Point.

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