TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2005
D.A. BROWN: QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO UP TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR 2003 FATAL HIT AND RUN OF 10-YEAR-OLD ASTORIA BOY ON BICYCLE
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that an Astoria man has been sentenced to 3⅓ to 10 years in prison for the hit-and-run death of a 10-year-old boy who was struck and killed while riding his bicycle on Ditmars Boulevard in April 2003.
District Attorney Brown said “The defendant has been found guilty by a jury of his peers and now must be punished for his actions in which a 10-year-old boy who was riding his bicycle in his neighborhood was struck and killed as the defendant recklessly drove his vehicle. Today’s sentence gives the defendant ample time to reflect on how his negligent actions ended the hopes and dreams of a young boy and his family.”
District Attorney Brown identified the defendant as Emmanuel Kanios, 21, of 25-39 80 Street in Astoria, Queens. The defendant was convicted on September 28, 2005 of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and Leaving the Scene of an Incident as a felony before Queens Supreme Court Justice Robert C. Kohm who imposed today’s indeterminate concurrent sentences of three and one-third to 10 years in prison and one and one-third to four years in prison, respectively.
The District Attorney said that, according to trial testimony, on April 12, 2003 at about 7:30 p.m., the defendant was operating a 1988 Green Honda CRV, driving eastbound on Ditmars Boulevard toward the intersection of 75th Street in Astoria, Queens, where he struck Stephan Trajkovski, 10, and caused his death by recklessly operating his vehicle. The defendant made a brief stop and then fled the scene.
Assistant District Attorney Denise Tirino of District Attorney’s Homicide Trials Bureau prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Jack Warsawsky, Deputy Bureau Chief and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crime Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crime Daniel A. Saunders.