Twin Brothers Commit Hit-and-Runs 2 Years Apart, DA Says

A West Babylon man was arrested Tuesday and charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed a disabled man in West Babylon last fall, authorities said.

Christopher Bacayon, 36, is charged with leaving the scene of an accident without reporting, a felony. He was arraigned Tuesday and bail was set at $100,000 cash or $300,000 bond.

The crash that killed 40-year-old Michael Dora, who was in a wheelchair, on the night of October 16 occurred just 10 days after Bacayon's brother, Benedict Bacayon, pleaded guilty to a similar hit-and-run that occurred in 2013, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said.

According to prosecutors, Dora, of West Babylon, was crossing Great East Neck Road, near Nill Street, when he was fatally struck in a southbound lane by a car that fled the scene.

Members of the Suffolk County Police Department Vehicular Crime Unit, the District Attorney’s Vehicular Crimes Bureau and the Medical Examiner’s Office responded to the site to find car parts scattered for several hundred feet from the point of impact, Spota said, adding that markings on the parts showed they were from a Nissan model.

“Those parts collected from the crime scene were matched against the damaged and missing parts from Christopher Bacayon’s car found parked in front of his residence at 81 Albermarle St. in West Babylon,” Spota said. “There was extensive front passenger side damage, the driver’s side airbag was deployed and the parts recovered at the crime scene were found to be a perfect match to Bacayon’s 2011 Nissan Infinity G37.”

Benedict Bacayon pleaded guilty in October to leaving the scene of a 2013 accident. He was behind the wheel of a 2006 Mercedes Benz CL500 that struck and seriously injured Corey Hall, of Brentwood, on Route 109 in North Lindenhurst. Benedict Bacayon was sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years probation.

The twin brothers were together on the night of the crash that killed Dora, Spota said.

“In fact, on the night Mr. Dora was killed on Great East Neck Road, the twin brothers were together earlier in the evening at a restaurant and a Huntington nightclub,” he said.

Both brothers were suspected of being drunk at the time of the crashes, but since they fled the scene, they could not be charged with DWI, WCBS 880 reported.

“The two brothers knew and took advantage of this defect that we have in the law,” Spota said, according to the report.

Photos: Christopher Bacayon (left) and Benedict Bacayon