A Lengthy Island household nonetheless reeling from the lack of their husband, father and brother was in courtroom as the person answerable for his demise was sentenced, 20 years after the actual fact.
Philip Mastropolo was 44 years previous when he was killed in a tragic automobile crash in April 2005. Prosecutors say Ganesh Shenoy ran by way of a crimson mild on the intersection of Levittown Parkway and Previous Nation Highway in Hicksville, pushing 80 mph in a 40 mph zone.
Prosecutors say he crashed into Mastropolo’s automobile, sending it 65 ft right into a field truck. Mastropolo died on scene.
“He was not arrested the night time the crime occurred as we had been nonetheless conducting our investigation,” defined Nassau District Lawyer Anne Donnelly. “He went to the hospital and towards medical recommendation checked himself out.”
Prosecutors say regardless of having his passport taken away, Shenoy managed to take a aircraft again to India. There the DA’s workplace tried to have him arrested however he made bail and eluded authorities for twenty years, till the U.S. Marshals had been in a position to convey him again to Nassau County in 2025.
“It took a very long time to get right here,” mentioned Donnelly. “However we by no means gave up.”
In courtroom, his daughter Krystina Marrone, who was 16 years previous when her father died, mentioned partly, “He wasn’t there on my marriage ceremony day. he wasn’t there for the beginning of his two grandchildren. You killed an awesome man, one which lived his life with integrity, dignity and respect, all qualities we want you’ll have possessed years in the past.”
Marrone additionally mentioned in courtroom, “we had been left with grief that doesn’t expire in an absence that may by no means be stuffed.”
In courtroom Shenoy smiled on the choose at occasions and solely made a quick assertion saying “Sorry to the household that’s all I can say, thanks.”
“It’s unhappy that the household goes by way of this loss for 20 years and he’s residing his finest life in India free to return and go,” mentioned Donnelly.
Shenoy was sentenced to three.5-10 years in jail as a part of his plea deal.
