A South Ozone Park man was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for a collision in February 2023 that severely injured and eventually killed a Richmond Hill resident who tried to stop him from stealing his car.

Mahindra Hansraj, 19, of 135th Avenue, pleaded guilty on Sept. 4 to manslaughter in the first degree in satisfaction of the charges against him in the death of Tauree Thompson.

According to the charges, on the night of Feb. 20, 2023, Hansraj and two others were in the vicinity of 104-21 Lefferts Blvd. in South Ozone Park at the same time Thompson was standing near his 2006 Lexus RX, with its doors unlocked and engine running. Hansraj jumped into the driver’s seat of the vehicle and his two companions joined him in the car. Thompson jumped onto the roof of his vehicle in an

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