The husband of the Florida woman who was killed after being struck by ex-Yankee Jim Leyritz's car stormed out of the courtroom Saturday looking crushed after the catcher was acquitted of DUI manslaughter.
"I don't think he got what he deserved," said a shaken Jordan Veitch, whose wife, Fredia Ann Veitch, was flung from her car and declared dead after the two SUVs collided three years ago.
The 30-year-old mother of two had recently returned from a family vacation in Phoenix where the couple discussed plans for a third child and she decided to quit her bartender gig to spend more time with her kids, he told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The 3 a.m. crash cut short those dreams, leaving her son Julian, now 8, and daughter, Kayla, now 16, confused and distraught.
Julian "asked me why Mommy wasn't going to come home; why Mommy is in the grass and who's going to take care of him," Veitch said at the time. "She was a good mother and a great wife."
Friends described her as "protective" and "motherly" of bar patrons and said her world revolved around her children.
After a night out with friends, she reportedly called her husband before climbing into her Mitsbushi Montero and minutes later was hit by Leyritz, who had been drinking at a nearby club.
He agreed to pay the family $350,000 in May after settling a wrongful death suit. Her friend, Kevin Lane, testified that she had also been drinking that evening, downing two tequila shots and three cocktails.
"I don't think he got what he deserved," said a shaken Jordan Veitch, whose wife, Fredia Ann Veitch, was flung from her car and declared dead after the two SUVs collided three years ago.
The 30-year-old mother of two had recently returned from a family vacation in Phoenix where the couple discussed plans for a third child and she decided to quit her bartender gig to spend more time with her kids, he told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The 3 a.m. crash cut short those dreams, leaving her son Julian, now 8, and daughter, Kayla, now 16, confused and distraught.
Julian "asked me why Mommy wasn't going to come home; why Mommy is in the grass and who's going to take care of him," Veitch said at the time. "She was a good mother and a great wife."
Friends described her as "protective" and "motherly" of bar patrons and said her world revolved around her children.
After a night out with friends, she reportedly called her husband before climbing into her Mitsbushi Montero and minutes later was hit by Leyritz, who had been drinking at a nearby club.
He agreed to pay the family $350,000 in May after settling a wrongful death suit. Her friend, Kevin Lane, testified that she had also been drinking that evening, downing two tequila shots and three cocktails.
