Ganesh Shenoy, 54, who fled to India after causing a fatal crash in Hicksville in 2005, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Just 14 days after the accident, Shenoy boarded a plane from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Mumbai, India and remained in India for the next 20 years. In September 2025, Shenoy was extradited back to the US for his trial. Shenoy was seen smiling as she entered the Nassau County courthouse for the sentencing. Christina Morrone, daughter of slain motorist Philip Mastropolo, told Shenoy, “You took away my hero from me, someone I looked up to.” “I had to graduate high school without him, get married without him, and I have two kids who will never know their grandfather,” she said. He told that his brother was suffering from leukemia. “My father worked two jobs so my mother could stay at home with my brother who has leukemia,” he said. “He was a man who deserved to grow old with his family.”“Sorry to the family,” Shenoy said when he was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. On April 11, 2005, Shenoy missed a red light and hit Mastropolo’s car with such force that the car was dragged 65 feet in the opposite direction. Shenoy was also injured but as soon as he was taken to the hospital, he refused treatment as he knew he would be arrested. His passport was confiscated but he left the US. He was officially convicted in August 2005 and Nassau County had been trying to get him back since then. Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said, “For two decades, Philip Mastropolo’s wife and children have borne the burden of their loss and the burden of knowing this cowardly defendant hid halfway around the world.” “He looked forward to accountability and the day when Ganesh Shenoy would finally be brought to justice. Today was that day,” Donnelly said. “When this defendant fled to India after the destruction he caused, he tried to escape the law and responsibility. But justice has no limits or expiration dates, and last year he was brought back to answer the charges he had long avoided. Now, a jail cell awaits him.”