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Posted inCrime & Courts

Ithaca man sentenced in hit-and-run death of 14-year-old girl

by Zoë Freer-Hessler April 21, 2022April 21, 2022

ITHACA, N.Y.—Robert J. DeFelice of Ithaca was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison for aggravated vehicular homicide that occurred July 21, 2021. DeFelice had pled guilty to the charge in January. Fourteen-year-old Sophia Nickerson was walking along the shoulder of Route 96 after leaving Indian Creek Farm with three others when DeFelice hit […]

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