Jan 15, 2025
A survivor of a deadly Long Island crash is in a medically induced coma after the driver — who cops say was high on drugs — crashed while returning to Queens from a bowling alley, killing two women. Anthonie Marte, 23, was sitting in the front passenger seat as 19-year-old driver Jaden Dsouza weaved in and out of traffic on the eastbound Southern State Parkway in North Massapequa around 11 p.m. Sunday, police said. Dsouza lost control of his black 2016 Dodge Dart and crashed into a tree near the shoulder. The car landed upside down in the grassy median between on- and off-ramps and there were marks on a tree from the collision, according to News12. Debris was scattered across the crash site, including a knocked-down exit sign, where drivers are known to speed and drive recklessly, the outlet reported. In the backseat were Dsouza’s older sister, Haily Dsouza, 21, and friend Crystal Alba-Figueroa, neither of whom survived the crash. Dsouza, of College Point, and Marte, of East Elmhurst, were rushed to an area hospital with serious injuries. On Monday, Marte’s grandmother told the Daily News he suffered a spinal injury and broken arm in the crash. He was intubated and placed in a medically induced coma at Nassau University Medical Center. “I asked if the doctor is saying he’ll be okay?” said Ana Marte, the man’s grandmother, as her eyes swelled with tears. “[The doctors] are saying that he have to be in [physical] therapy.” Marte left his grandmother’s home around 6 p.m. and headed for a Long Island bowling alley, the woman recalled. A few hours later, he sent her a photo of himself bowling, followed by a message two hours after that to let her know he was on his way back to her house. But he never made it. Instead, she received a call from police telling her that her grandson had been in a crash and was in critical condition — but still alive. “He’s a very good person,” Ana Marte said of her grandson. “Everybody say the same thing — he have a good heart.” Jaden Dsouza was charged with manslaughter, aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular manslaughter and driving while ability impaired by drugs following the crash. “He not supposed to drive, if he was like that,” said Ana Marte. “But teenagers like that they don’t care about anything. They don’t think. They don’t use their head.” Despite her grandson’s injuries, Ana Marte said she wishes Dsouza would not face criminal charges for the crash, out of compassion for his mother. “That mother — since that day, I don’t eat, I think about that lady,” said Ana Marte. “She lost her daughter and her son.”
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