WHITE PLAINS – A 41-year-old Yorkto0wn resident, Mark Cope, was sentenced Thursday in Westchester County Court to three to nine years in state prison in connection with a wrong-way, head-on crash that claimed the life of an Ossining woman.
Cope was sentencing on three counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter, and aggravated vehicular assault, all as felonies in the death of 32-year-old Shina McClam.
She was driving southbound on Route 9 in Peekskill shortly after 9 p.m. on December 23, 2020, when Cope slammed into her vehicle while driving the wrong way. He had a blood alcohol content of .21 at the time of the collision.
McClam was driving with her six-year-old daughter and 18-year-old niece in her car. They were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries. McClam died at the scene.
State Police conducted the investigation and arrested Cope.
