Drunk driver that killed two Long Island teens sentenced in wrong-way crash: the definition of evil

Heartbroken family members of the two 14-year-old boys who were killed by a drunk driver in a wrong-way drug-induced crash in Long Island blasted the man responsible for cutting their lives short as “evil” moments before he was hauled away to prison.Hundreds of tearful friends and loved ones packed a Nassau County courtroom – and two overflow rooms – Friday as Amandeep Singh was sentenced to up to 25 years for the deaths of Roslyn Middle School eighth-graders Ethan Falkowitz and Drew Hassenbein on May 3, 2023. “Instead of picking up my son at school, I had to identify him at the morgue.It’s inhuman torture,” Drew’s father, Mitch Hassenbein, said in court – calling Singh “the definition of evil.”“I’m a broken, bitter, angry man, filled with a dark side, and trying to navigate a foreign world.

You ripped the heart out of our family.He gave my son a death sentence, and all of us a life sentence.”Hassenbein was one of nine people who delivered victim impact statements – many of whom slammed the court for a punishment they felt wasn’t long enough. Singh was driving at 95 miles per hour against traffic on North Broadway – which has a speed limit of 40 miles per hour – when he slammed his 2019 Dodge Ram into the Alfa Romeo Drew and Ethan were riding in with a 16- and 17-year-old boy. The 36-year-old was drunk and high on cocaine with a blood alcohol content of .15 – nearly twice the legal limit – with cops recovering a bottle of tequila from his truck. The married father of two later fled the scene and hid behind a dumpster at a nearby shopping center, where he was busted by cops.

Prosecutors said Singh was so drunk he thought he was in New Jersey.“Amandeep Singh is not a man, he’s a coward and he’s a murderer.He deserved a much worse sentence than he received,” said Zachary Sheena, one of the teens who survived the wreck that totaled the SUV.“He never apologized once and took every chance possible to try and get out...