LI man sentenced to up to 25 years in wrong-way DWI crash that killed 2 teens

A Long Island businessman who admitted to being drunk and precocious connected drugs successful a wrong-way clang that killed 2 teens astir 2 years agone has been sentenced to up to 25 years successful prison.

Amandeep Singh, of Roslyn, pleaded blameworthy past month to aggravated vehicular manslaughter and related charges successful the deaths of eighth graders Ethan Falkowitz and Drew Hassenbein connected May 2, 2023.

On Friday, Judge Helene Gugerty sentenced him to 8 ⅓ to 25 years successful prison.

During the hearing, household members delivered affectional interaction statements, urging the justice to springiness Singh the maximum sentence.

“Instead of picking up my lad astatine school, I had to prime him up astatine the morgue. Instead of watching him usage his tennis racket similar a magic wand, I had to hide it with him,” Hassenbein’s begetter said, according to the Long Island Press.

“You stole my bosom and soul,” said Falkowitz’s mother.

Singh, a begetter of two, said helium “would ne'er wounded a kid intentionally and yet [he] did,” ABC NY reported.

“I apologize from the bottommost of my bosom for your loss,” helium said erstwhile addressing the victims’ families.

The 2 teens, described by section media arsenic tennis “prodigies,” and “stars,” were driving location from celebrating a precocious schoolhouse tennis lucifer triumph connected the nighttime of May 3, 2023, erstwhile Singh crashed his pickup motortruck into their car connected North Broadway successful Jericho.

Prosecutors accidental the 36-year-old operation enforcement was driving his 2021 Dodge Ram TRX astatine astir 95 miles per hr portion intoxicated and precocious connected cocaine erstwhile helium crossed implicit the roadworthy and continued southbound successful the northbound lane.

He past crashed his 2021 Dodge Ram TRX into an Alfa Romeo with 4 kids inside.

Falkowitz and Hassenbein were killed instantly. The 2 different teens were rushed to an country infirmary with aggregate injuries.

Singh fled the country but was arrested a abbreviated clip later. He was recovered hiding adjacent a dumpster successful the parking batch of a adjacent buying center, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.