Las Vegas, NV (AP) — A former North Las Vegas firefighter has been sentenced to prison for the overdose death of his wife.
A judge on Friday sentenced Christopher Candito to 16 to 40 months in prison on his October guilty plea to involuntary manslaughter in the 2020 death of Tiffany Slatsky, 25.
Investigators said Slatsky was found unresponsive at the couple’s Henderson apartment on Feb. 23, 2020, following a party at a Las Vegas hotel with several other firefighters.
Candito, 34, told the judge he wished he “had been a better man.”
“I didn’t give Tiffany the morphine, but it was there because of me,” Candito said.
Police said Candito didn’t take his wife to a nearby hospital while she was experiencing overdose symptoms. He instead drove her to a North Las Vegas fire station where he administered an overdose antidote and then he took her home, police said.
Slatsky was unconscious when Candito later woke up, and he attempted CPR and called 911, police said.
“Too little, too late,” said prosecutor Eckley Keach, saying that Candito should have known better.
An autopsy found Slatsky had multiple drugs in her system and attributed her death to morphine.