NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) – The criminal case stemming from a boat ride on the Hudson River that took the lives of a bride-to-be and her fiancé’s best man is ending. But the case may persist in civil courtrooms for years.
Jojo John, who was piloting the powerboat that crashed into a barge in July 2013, is expected to be sent to jail Tuesday for two years.
He pleaded guilty in June to vehicular manslaughter and admitted that he was drunk at the time.
John’s 19-foot Stingray crashed into a barge that was moored in the Hudson as part of the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge, about 30 miles north of Manhattan.
Two 30-year-old friends of John, Lindsey Stewart of Piermont and Mark Lennon of Pearl River, were killed. Stewart was to have been married two weeks later. The groom-to-be, Brian Bond, was injured, as was John.