Thursday marked six years to the day since a fatal crash involving a driver escaping from police killed Shawn and Patricia Wonderly.

The man convicted of two counts of manslaughter for the deaths of the Wonderlys was sentenced to 6 1/2 to 13 years for each count. But, because of state law, those sentences are served concurrently. The family has been campaigning to change that law. 

Relatives of the Wonderlys, including their daughter Abigail, joined State Senator Sue Serino and Assemblyman Kieran Lalor to continue their years-long campaign to change the law to allow for consecutive sentencing. 

"When you lose someone close to you, it's always emotional. You can only imagine what the kids have gone through, or my mom, who is elderly and now has to deal with the loss of her youngest child," said Richard DeSantola, brother of Patricia Wonderly.

"As unbelievable as it is after six years of efforts to get the laws changed so that someone is punished equally for each life they take, it still hasn't been able to get through the majority in the Assembly."

The bill has passed the Assembly several times, but has stalled each time in the Senate. The late assemblyman Frank Skartados was the Democratic sponsor for the bill in the Assembly, which needs bipartisan support to pass.