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COLUMBUS, Ind. — An engineer from India was sentenced to four years to be served in prison Thursday after being found guilty by a Bartholomew Circuit Court jury in the hit-and-run death of a Columbus East High School student.
In the sentencing, Shiam Sunder Shankara Subramanian, 26, Columbus, was sentenced to six years in prison, with four to be served and two on probation, for Level 4 felony leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death or catastrophic injury and a three-year sentence for passing a school bus while the arm signal is extended causing death, a Level 5 felony, to be served concurrently with the other sentence.
Judge Kelly Benjamin said at the hearing it is likely Subramanian will be deported to India following serving his sentence.
Subramanian could have faced up to 18 years in prison, as well as fines of up to $20,000 on the two convictions.
He was convicted of the hit-and-run death of 16-year-old Lily J. Streeval on Aug. 30, 2021, who was killed as she was trying to board a Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. bus on her way to school.
Lily Streeval
Prosecutors said the victim was hit by Subramanian’s 2019 Honda Civic, thrown against the side of the bus she was attempting to board and was found 9 feet from the point of impact on South Gladstone Avenue.
During the trial, two witnesses in their own vehicles – Brian Rea and Bryan Johnson – testified Subramanian did not stop at all after hitting the teen.
Subramanian, who was working in Bartholomew County on a work visa, surrendered his passport when formal charges were filed against him on Sept. 2, 2021.
For more on this story, see Friday’s Republic.
