Sentence For 2019 Dobbs Ferry Fatal Hit-And-Run

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NY — A Westchester man was sentenced in connection with a 2019 hit-and-run accident.

According to the Westchester County district attorney's office, Johnny David Machado, 28, of Hastings-on-Hudson, was sentenced Thursday to one year in jail for each of two felony counts.

He pleaded guilty in November to leaving the scene of an accident without reporting and criminally negligent homicide.

His sentence will be served concurrently, and he will also pay a $2,000 fine on the leaving-the-scene-of-an-accident count.

Authorities said Machado was driving on Route 9 in Dobbs Ferry Sept. 20, 2019, when he struck a pedestrian — Rocco DePaolo, 91 — in a crosswalk. DePaolo was walking home after attending a high school football game.

He was taken to Westchester County Medical Center where he died of his injuries.

Police said Machado was using his cell phone at the time of the accident, and he did not stop after striking DePaolo and continued traveling south on Route 9.

Patricia DePaolo Munk, DePaolo's daughter, was one of several family members present at the sentencing. She said her parents had been married for 57 years at the time of his death.

"The light in our lives was extinguished forever and the joy of our family was taken away," Munk said.

District Attorney Miriam Rocah said the case was a sad reminder of the consequences of distracted driving.

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