Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah announced today that a Mount Vernon man was sentenced to an indeterminate term of 2½ to 7½ years in state prison for causing a high-speed vehicular crash that killed two passengers and severely injured a third.
DA Rocah said: “The devastating consequences of the defendant’s selfish and reckless behavior killed two young people and permanently altered the life of another. We hope today’s sentence provides a measure of solace to the victims and their families.”
The defendant, Anthony Rose, 21, pleaded guilty on April 4 to two counts of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and Assault in the Second Degree, all felonies.
On Dec. 18, 2021, at approximately 5:23 a.m., the defendant, who did not have a driver’s license, drove in excess of 100 miles per hour, with his headlights off with three passengers in his car on the Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon before nearly hitting one car, striking a second vehicle, and crashing head-on into a tree.
Mount Vernon residents Noelina Pantaleon, 20, died at the scene, and Harry Jonathan Hurst, 19, was transported to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where he remained with a traumatic brain injury until he died on March 7, 2022. A third passenger, Nyaquae Henderson, 22, also of Mount Vernon, was transported to the hospital and treated for a traumatic brain injury and will undergo rehabilitative treatment for the remainder of her life.
The Westchester County Department of Public Safety arrested the defendant on Jan. 26, 2023. The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office assisted with the investigation.
The case was before New York State Supreme Court Justice Larry Schwartz and prosecuted by Vehicular Crimes Bureau Chief Jonathan Strongin, with assistance from the DA’s Criminal Investigators Squad and the Victims’ Justice Center.
