GENESEE COUNTY, N.Y. (WKBW) — The woman who admitted to her role in the death of a Genesee County Sheriff's Sergeant has been sentenced to six months behind bars and five years probation.
Lyndsey Wilcox was sentenced Tuesday morning in Genesee County Court, about 10 months after Sergeant Thomas Sanfratello was attacked at Batavia Downs.
Sanfratello was attempting to arrest Wilcox and Michael Elmore after an altercation at the casino. While he was trying to take Wilcox into custody she became physically combative. Elmore used a piece of thick jewelry to beat the sergeant and put him in a chokehold. Sanfratello died shortly after.
In November, Wilcox pleaded guilty to assault and Elmore pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter. Elmore was sentenced to 20 years behind bars in December.
"He will never be forgotten and he will be missed immensely by all that not only had the chance to know him, but talk to him. And he will always be loved," Ian Sanfratello, the son Thomas Sanfratello, said in March while speaking alongside several Genesee County sheriff's deputies and Batavia police officers during a news conference.
