SYRACUSE - A 32-year-old Syracuse man was indicted Friday on charges he killed an off-duty Virginia police officer and his girlfriend in a drunken boating crash on Skaneateles Lake.

An Onondaga County grand jury charged Craig Cordes with two counts of first-degree vehicular manslaughter, as well as boating while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to render aid in distress, reckless operation of a vessel and failure to yield right of way.

Authorities said Cordes was drunk at the controls of his motorboat when it broadsided the victims' boat just before 2:30 a.m. on July 8. The crash killed John Kelly, a 32-year-old officer from Richmond, Va., and Heather Wilkins, 26, also of Richmond.

The couple was vacationing in the area with family.

Cordes stopped to rescue two friends who were thrown from his 19-foot-long boat and then left without helping Kelly and Wilkins, authorities said.

Cordes and his friends waited nearly two hours before contacting authorities - not to report the crash, but to see if anyone else had.

A law student at the University of Arizona, Cordes had spent most of that afternoon and evening with eight or nine friends at three bars in Skaneateles, authorities said.

He was scheduled to be arraigned before Onondaga County Judge Anthony Aloi on Wednesday, prosecutors said.