A man who drove drunk the wrong way, crashing into two Roslyn teens and killing them was sentenced this afternoon.
Amandeep Singh was sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years on the top charges.
Singh confessed to a dozen charges, including the top count of aggravated vehicular homicide.
Ethan Falkowitz and Drew Hassenbein were coming back from a tennis match celebration when they were killed in the May 2023 crash.
“This has been the most devastating time for our families and nothing in life prepares you for losing a child,” Gary Falkowitz, Ethan’s dad, said at Singh’s sentencing.
Mitch Hassenbein, Drew’s dad, described Singh’s “cowardly acts” and “recklessness” as “grotesque.”
Zachary Sheena was driving Drew and Ethan that night. They'd been celebrating a tennis victory. In his victim impact statement, he said that he suffers from PTSD and is “scared to sleep.” He suffered severe physical injuries as well. Zachary said that Ethan just wanted to make people smile and Drew was a role model for everyone around him
Ethan’s younger sister, Reese, said she misses her brother’s hugs and how he would pick her up and spin her around the house.
Singh addressed the court and said, “I’m sorry for everything.” His attorney, Edward Sapone, told reporters that he accepted “full responsibility for his actions."
Sapone said Singh “didn’t mean to hurt anyone” but acknowledged he made “very poor decisions choices that night."