Judge Marianne Hemmeter sentenced Modou Ngom to 22 and a half years in the Delaware County I-71 crash.

The term is 22 and a half years: five years on each of three aggravated vehicular homicide counts and 18 months on each of five assault counts, run consecutively. Fifty and 51 are not the same age. A later 10TV story calls Luke the 1-year-old. The other accounts call him the 37-year-old husband. ABC6 prints aggravated vehicular assault. The other outlets print vehicular assault.

The Delaware Gazette, by Glenn Battishill, reported Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, that Delaware County Common Pleas Judge Marianne Hemmeter sentenced Modou Fall Ngom, 50, on Thursday to 22.5 years in prison. It reported five years on each of three aggravated vehicular homicide counts and 18 months on each of five vehicular assault counts, ordered consecutive, for 22 years and six months, plus 201 days of jail-time credit. The Columbus Dispatch reported Judge Marianne T. Hemmeter sentenced Modou F. Ngom, 51, on Oct. 29 to 22½ years, the maximum allowed, according to the Delaware County Prosecutor's Office. Fifty and 51 are not the same age. Fall and the initial F. are not the same printed name. The middle initial on the judge is the Dispatch. The Gazette does not print it. 10TV reported a judge sentenced 50-year-old Modou Ngom to a total of 22.5 years, and that a sentencing memorandum filed that week put the first three counts at up to 60 months each and the remaining counts at up to 18 months each. Sixty months is five years. That memorandum and the Gazette's breakdown are the same arithmetic. The Dispatch reported a Delaware County jury found him guilty on Sept. 25 of three counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and five counts of vehicular assault. The Gazette reported he was indicted in April, that the trial began Sept. 22, that it lasted four days, and that the jury found him guilty on all eight counts. The Gazette's page prints "Delaware Country Grand Jury." 10TV reported a four-day September trial and did not print Sept. 25. WOSU reported a September jury found him guilty of three counts of "aggravated of vehicular homicide" and five counts of vehicular assault. The extra "of" is in WOSU's sentence.

The crash was April 11, northbound on Interstate 71 in Delaware County, in a construction zone. The Gazette reported the Ohio State Highway Patrol said Ngom was driving a 2006 Freightliner tractor-trailer, failed to stop for a traffic backup, and struck several vehicles from behind, in a nine-vehicle crash. The Dispatch reported a tractor-trailer, a chain-reaction crash, and that the family's vehicle caught fire. 10TV did not print a fire, and it did not print nine vehicles. It reported the crash just before 6:30 p.m. near the U.S. 36 and state Route 37 interchange, by the Tanger Outlets Columbus mall. WOSU's story says the construction zone was near the Route 36/37 interchange. WOSU's photo caption says near the Sunbury exit. Those are not the same location string. The Dispatch reported the dead as veterinary Dr. Lynnea Soposki, 36, who worked at the Muirfield Animal Hospital in Dublin, her husband, Luke Soposki, 37, and the couple's 1-year-old son, and it reported the family lived in Ashley. The Gazette reported Dublin veterinarian Dr. Lynnea Soposki, her chemist husband, Luke, and their 1-year-old son. 10TV's morning story, updated at 9:52 a.m. EDT, reported those ages and called Luke a chemist. WOSU reported Dublin veterinarian Dr. Lynnea Soposki, her husband Luke Soposki, and their 1-year-old son. Their infant son is the third person those stories say died. ABC6 reported the grandparents told the court that two New York State troopers came to their home, and that their grandson was 13 months old. One year old and 13 months old are not the same age. ABC6 spelled a brother of Luke as Greg Saposki. The family's name in the Dispatch, the Gazette, 10TV, and WOSU is Soposki. Libby Cathey's 10TV story, published at 8:04 p.m. EDT, says the crash killed Lynnea and a person it pairs with her, and their 1-year-old son, Luke. That wording makes Luke the infant. The morning story identifies Luke Soposki, 37, as the husband. How many other people were hurt is not one number. The Dispatch reported five other people were seriously injured. ABC6's headline says the crash hurt 5. In the later 10TV story, assistant prosecutor Mark Sleeper pointed to three deaths and five serious injuries. The morning 10TV story reported three people injured besides the three deaths. The Gazette reported several others were injured. Three and five are not the same count.

10TV's morning account of the trial is more specific than the sentence stories. It reported the jury watched Ohio Department of Transportation video. It reported a witness described the truck as "fish tailing" for miles, and that defense attorneys told jurors it may have been swaying because it carried 20 pallets of bottled water. It reported patrol investigators testified he was not using a cellphone or tablet. It reported he told investigators that traffic had slowed and that another vehicle entered his path, and that a patrol investigator testified there was "zero evidence" of that. It reported investigators found no skid marks and nothing blocking his view. It reported he told investigators he had been traveling about 25 mph, that an Ohio State Highway Patrol sergeant said the damage to the front of the truck did not support that claim, and that reconstruction evidence indicated the vehicle that first struck the Soposkis' vehicle was traveling about 63 mph. About 25 mph and about 63 mph are not the same speed. The Gazette did not print those speeds. It reported assistant prosecutor Elizabeth Matune's memorandum, which said that at the scene he blamed a red truck, that video showed that account was untrue, and that he took the stand at trial still deflecting blame. The Gazette quoted her question: "If that does not deserve the maximum sentence allowed, what does?" What he said in court, and what the judge said back, is also not one quotation. WOSU reported Hemmeter said he turned I-71 into a "war zone," and, "All you had to do was apply your brakes, look up." It reported that before the sentence he said he was praying for the people who lost their lives and called it a "terrible, terrible accident," and that Lynnea's brother, Jesse Mallen, told the court the pain is unbearable. The morning 10TV story reported the judge criticized his "callousness" and quoted, "I can't fashion a sentence that is commensurate with the pain and suffering that was caused," and, "You wiped out a family. And from the testimony of the witnesses, it was horrific." The later 10TV story quotes, "You wiped out a family, and from the testimony of the families, it was horrific." Witnesses and families are not the same word. That later story reported he told the court, "I never intended to be involved in an accident," and that he prays for the Soposki family daily. It reported Mallen said, "The light of my world went out when you left," that the hearing fell one day after what would have been Lynnea's 37th birthday, and that Mallen said, "I think 22 and a half years for triple homicide is getting off pretty easy." The counts the other stories name are aggravated vehicular homicide. They do not call the conviction a murder statute. The later story reported Amadou Ly, speaking for Ngom's family, said, "We are truly, truly sorry for what took place on that highway on that day," described him as a father of five, said English is not his first language, and said the family would discuss whether to pursue an appeal. It quoted Ly: "What we expected from the judge was fairness, mercy, and not revenge." It reported Sleeper called that view outrageous and said, "The defendant was not sentenced for an accident." ABC6 reported the judge said, "You wiped out an entire family. The effects of that will be lifelong, life altering, life changing," and it used "he said" for Judge Marianne Hemmeter in that sentence. Later in the same story, ABC6 says she imposed the sentence. He and she are not the same pronoun.

The license order is not one phrase. The Gazette reported his driver's license was suspended for the rest of his life. 10TV's morning story reported lifetime license suspensions. ABC6 reported a lifetime suspension on the most serious counts, five-year suspensions on the others, and no fine, because of an ongoing civil case and the length of the prison term. One lifetime suspension, more than one lifetime suspension, and a lifetime suspension plus five-year suspensions are not the same order. ABC6 reported that his right to appeal was explained and that a public defender was appointed for the appeal. Ly's statement that the family would discuss an appeal is not that appointment. The Gazette reported that on Friday he was still in the Delaware County Jail, awaiting transport to prison. Thursday's order is the sentence on the eight counts the jury found. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.