HICKSVILLE, New York (WABC) — A man originally from India who pleaded guilty to a fatal high-speed crash on Long Island has been sentenced on Friday.
Ganesh Shenoy, 54, was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison in connection to the deadly crash in Hicksville back in 2005. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the second degree on February 6.
On April 11, 2005, prosecutors say Shenoy was driving twice the speed limit when he drove through a red light at Levittown Parkway and Old County Road and crashed into 44-year-old Philip Mastropolo’s car.
The force of the crash demolished Mastropolo’s car and sent the vehicle skidding into the front of a Freightliner box truck that was stopped at the red light on the other side of the intersection, officials say.
First responders pronounced Mastropolo dead at the scene. Shenoy was taken to the hospital for treatment, but refused medical attention and left.
Despite having his New York State Driver’s License and Indian Passport seized by police, Shenoy boarded a plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport to Mumbai, India, just 14 days after the crash.
Authorities say Shenoy never returned to the U.S. and lived in India for 20 years before being extradited back to the U.S. for trial last September.
“For two decades, Philip Mastropolo’s wife and children have carried the weight of his loss and the burden of knowing this cowardly defendant hid half a world away. They waited for accountability and for the day when Ganesh Shenoy was finally brought to justice. Today was that day,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said.
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It marks the first extradition from India to the U.S. since 2017.
In the closed courtroom, Mastropolo’s daughter Krystina Morrone spoke of her family’s grief.
“My dad worked two jobs so my mother could stay home with my brother with leukemia,” she said. “He was a man who deserved to grow old with his family.”
To Shenoy, she said, “you did not kill a good man, you killed a great man.”
Mastropolo’s family was asked as they left the sentencing, if this feels like justice, they said, “if that’s what you want to call it.”
Shenoy’s case was the first extradition of a person from India to the U.S. since 2017, officials said.
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