Evan Sachs gets 14 years for stabbing

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced on Thursday that a Merrick man who stabbed an 8-year-old boy in the back at a Westbury arcade has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Evan Sachs, 24, pleaded guilty in July to attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree. The DA’s Office recommended the maximum allowable sentence of 25 years in prison.

Rice said that at about 8:25 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2010, Sachs used a folding knife to stab the boy five times as he stood in front of a video game at Dave & Buster’s in Westbury.

Sachs then ran into the bathroom, where he was subdued by the victim’s father and another witness until police arrived. A note that Sachs had written and put in his pocket before the attack indicated that he had been planning to kill a child. The victim, now 9 years old, suffered a partially collapsed lung in the attack, but has since recovered physically from his injuries.

“Though we pushed for maximum prison time, today’s sentence takes Evan Sachs off the streets and puts him in a prison cell where he belongs,” Rice said. “This sentence will not erase the physical and emotional scars this young boy suffered in the attack, but I do hope that it provides him and his family some comfort.”

Chief Mitchell Benson and Assistant District Attorney Melissa Lewis of the Major Offense Bureau prosecuted the case for the DA’s Office. Sachs was represented by attorney Michael Soshnick.

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