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Sheepshead Bay man pleads
guilty to vehicular homicide
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
A Sheepshead Bay man faces up to 21
years in prison after pleading guilty
Wednesday to killing a man amid a
brutal, head-on collision while driving
drunk last summer.
Aleh Sheipak, 51, was spotted driving
his Volkswagen SUV into oncoming
traffi c on the Belt Parkway near
the Verrazzano Bridge at around 2
a.m. July 12, when he smashed headfi
rst into a Lyft driver’s sedan, according
to Brooklyn’s top prosecutor, who
railed against the defendant’s devilmay
care attitude.
“The reckless and irresponsible actions
of this defendant ended the life
of a promising young man and devastated
his family,” said Eric Gonzalez.
“By choosing to operate a vehicle
while intoxicated, the defendant was a
danger to everyone that night.”
According to the investigation,
Sheipak drove against westbound traffi
c for over two miles before colliding
with the other vehicle, severely injuring
the driver and two passengers, including
27-year-old Gerald Obah, who
later perished at Langone Hospital in
Sunset Park.
Meanwhile, Sheipak failed a fi eld
sobriety test on the scene, and a blood
GUILTY: Aleh Sheipak pleaded guilty on
June 5 to fatally striking a man with his car
and injuring two others while intoxicated in
July 2018. Brooklyn District Attorney’s offi ce
sample later revealed that his alcohol
content was more than twice the legal
limit at the time of the crash, according
to Gonzalez.
Sheipak plead guilty to aggravated
vehicular homicide and other
charges on June 5 before Brooklyn
Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun,
who indicated he will sentence the
defendant to seven to 21 years at his
next court date on August 7, according
to Gonzalez.
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