LI Man Sentenced In Drag Race Deaths Gets Up To 4 Years For Violating Probation
MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A Long Island man who received six months in prison for manslaughter in a street racing crash that killed five Farmingdale teenagers has been resentenced to up to four years in prison for violating his probation.
The sentence comes after Cory Gloe was rearrested last month after shooting a 12-gauge shotgun into the air in the yard behind his home three times – steps away from a school and neighbors, according to Nassau County police.
Gloe pleaded guilty in March to a 17-count indictment that included five manslaughter charges in exchange for the six-month sentence in connection to a Mother's Day 2014 crash that left five teenagers dead.
The crash killed 17-year-old Tristan Reichle, 14-year-old Carly Marie Lonnborg, 15-year-old Noah Francis, 18-year-old Jesse Romero and 17-year-old Cody Talanian.
Gloe received the six-month sentence, along with five years' probation, for goading the other car with the five teens inside into racing and then leaving the scene after their car crashed. He finished serving his original sentence in July.
"We haven't gotten what we wanted right from the start," an uncle of victim Lonnborg told WCBS 880's Sophia Hall. "Better today, but we're still not satisfied."
"My daughter's gone. There's four other kids gone. And this kid walks around the neighborhood laughing, blowing off a shotgun," John Lonnberg, Carly Marie's father, told CBS2's Jennifer McLogan. "How did he even buy a shotgun?"
"Things that we wanted to hear the judge say the first time around, we were able to hear a little this time," said Celeste Tziamihas, Francis' sister. "Our wounds are too deep, and they are too open for anything to ever really satisfy."
Nassau County Judge Terence P. Murphy granted youthful offender status, which would have sealed Gloe's criminal conviction, because Gloe was 17 at the time of the incident. But Murphy rescinded the ruling after the 20-year-old pleaded guilty, and resentenced him to 1 1/3 to four years in prison.
"There's a stark difference between jail and prison, which you'll soon find out," Murphy told Gloe. "It was up to you to decide your fate. Mr. Gloe, you proved to me who you are."
Social media posts from Gloe that mocked police and the criminal justice system also emerged following his trial.
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