New York:
An Indian-the years of construction manager has received a punishment of a maximum of 25 years for driving at 150 km / h while drunk and high on cocaine resulting in a crash in which two teenage players were killed.
On Friday, Amandepep Singh was sentenced to a maximum prison time of 25 years with a minimum of eight years and four months in Mineola on Long Island, while nine family and friends of the victim denounced him angry in court.
“Your anger towards me is completely understood and completely justified,” a penitent Singh told them before he was convicted.
“This was all my fault. Losing a child is the biggest sorrow. I committed the big sin. If someone had died, I should have been,” he told Judge Helene Gugerty.
The crowd of the supporters of the popular teenagers who had come to see the condemnation was so great that two extra courts were opened to accommodate them.
According to the imposed sense Gugerty, Singh must serve the minimum penalty before he can be eligible for conditional release, among other things based on his behavior in prison, with the term that extends to 25 years if he is not eligible for conditional release.
Singh, 36, worked as a project manager for a construction company.
Nassau's public prosecutor, Anne, said Donely said that one night in May 2023, Singh has accelerated the wrong direction at 150 km / h in his Dodge Ram truck in a zone with a speed limit of 65 km / h.
He hit the Alfa Romeo with four teenagers, two of whom survived the crash, and he was caught hiding near a garbage can, she added.
Tests revealed that he had an alcohol level of the blood of 0.15 percent, almost twice the limit of 0.8 percent and the presence of cocaine, she said.
The two 14-year-olds who died, Ethan Falkowitz and Drew Hassenbein, were budding tennis stars who returned from celebrating their victory in a match.
The Falkowitz family has set up a foundation in honor of him to promote tennis among young people.
Together with the US Tennis Association and others, it is organizing a tennis classic tournament in honor of him.
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