A 20-year-old Montauk man pleaded guilty on Friday in a hit-and-run accident that left an 18-year-old college-bound student dead last summer, but he apparently will not be going to jail under a plea arrangement. Learn More
The man allegedly behind the wheel in a hit-and-run that left an NYU student dead is facing a judge. Greg Cergol reports. Learn more
By Christine Sampson January 5, 2022 On behalf of his client, the driver in a hit-and-run incident in August that led to the death of Devesh Samtani, a Hong Kong teenager who was vacationing here, the lawyer Edward Burke Jr. offered sorrowful condolences Wednesday to the Samtani family outside Suffolk County Supreme Court in Riverside. Some
By Christine SampsonSeptember 30, 2021 In an ongoing investigation into a hit-and-run accident on Aug. 10 that led to the death of Devesh Samtani, 18, a summer visitor who was one of hundreds walking in the dark on a narrow road after a huge house party in Amagansett, a new report said that there had been
September 2, 2021 The death of Devesh Samtani, an 18-year-old summer visitor who had been struck by a car while walking on the side of the road in Amagansett at night last month, was an avoidable tragedy. Attention was initially focused on the 19-year-old part-time Montauk resident whose car struck Mr. Samtani then drove away.
By Christine Sampson August 25, 2021 He was having a panic attack and didn’t know what to do, Daniel Campbell wrote in a seven-page statement to police a few hours after he struck Devesh Samtani, 18, of Hong Kong, while driving on a dark but crowded road in Amagansett to drop off his sister and her friends
By Matthew Chayes August 20, 2021 The alleged hit-and-run driver in last week’s crash that killed a Hamptons partygoer told police that”I freaked out” before fleeing and “I thought I killed him,” according to a criminal complaint. At an arraignment Thursday on a felony charge of leaving the scene of a crash resulting in serious
The teenage victim of an Aug. 10 hit-and-run in Amagansett died on Friday from head injuries sustained in the accident. Devesh Samtani, 18, of Hong Kong, had been headed to a party at 37 Timber Trail in Amagansett on Aug. 10. Some 800 to 1,000 people had gathered there by the time police arrived to break it up, East Hampton
By Matthew Chayes August 17, 2021 Eighteen-year-old Devesh Samtani of Hong Kong had just flown in for his freshman year at New York University. But first, he and 13 family members were summering together in the Hamptons. “As soon as he landed in New York, he came out east, and the plan was to be
By Matthew ChayesAugust 11, 2021 Eighteen-year-old Devesh Samtani was in a crowd of Hamptons partygoers Tuesday night spilling out of a large gathering in Amagansett the police had just broken up. Nineteen-year-old Daniel Campbell was driving an SUV to the party, about to drop people off at the house. That’s according to the East Hampton
