MINEOLA, N.Y. (1010 WINS) – A Long Island man was sentenced for a wrong-way crash last year that killed two 14-year-old boys and injured two other teenagers as they drove home from a night celebrating a high school tennis match win, prosecutors announced on Friday.
Amandeep Singh, 36, was sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison.Singh had pleaded guilty last month to driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he crashed his pickup truck into a car carrying the victims at 75 mph. The crash killed 14-year-old tennis stars Ethan Felkowitz and Drew Hassenbein from Roslyn instantly, according to Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly.
The Nassau County courtroom was filled with emotion as the families of two 14-year-old boys spoke before the sentencing of the driver responsible for their deaths. Their parents described the boys as positive, intelligent, and talented tennis players. They said their lives are now empty and filled with pain without them.
Family members called Singh a "turkey," a "child killer," and a "monster."
Singh pleaded guilty but did not look up at the victims' families as they spoke in court.
Singh was charged with manslaughter, assault, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, driving while ability impaired by combined influence of alcohol and a drug, and driving while intoxicated.
According to court documents, on May 3, 2023, Singh was driving a 2021 Dodge Ram TRX crossed over the road, and continued south in the northbound lanes while intoxicated and high on cocaine.
Singh then crashed his vehicle into an oncoming Alfa Romeo that had four teenage passengers.
An analysis of the event data recorder in Singh's vehicle indicated that he was driving 75 miles per hour in a 40 mile-per-hour zone at impact, according to prosecutors.
Due to the force of the crash, Hassenbein and Falkowitz, who were seated in the right side of the Alfa Romeo, were killed instantly.
The crash killed 14-year-old tennis stars Ethan Felkowitz and Drew Hassenbein from Roslyn instantly.GoFundMe
Singh fled the crash scene and was arrested shortly after, found hiding near a dumpster in a shopping center parking lot close to the collision site.
The two other teenagers were taken to the hospital with several injuries, including a concussion, a leg injury, and shards of glass that needed to be removed from one of the victim's eyes.
A search warrant for the defendant's blood revealed Singh had a blood alcohol content of .15% approximately four hours after the crash and revealed the presence of cocaine.
The teens, members of the Roslyn High School tennis team and students at Roslyn Middle School, had been celebrating a tennis match victory at a local restaurant before the crash.
