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A New Jersey sister and brother were thrown from their grandfather\u2019s boat and killed after the kids asked to go back to his house after a family dinner out, according to court docs.<\/p>\n

Read more Brian Hickerson shared hopes to marry \u2018good buddy\u2019 Hayden Panettiere months before her death<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephen Schneider, 64, who was charged with double homicide last week, insisted to police he\u2019d had only three beers at the two-hour outing on Barnegat Bay.<\/p>\n

New Jersey courts redacted his blood alcohol level in the documents, but State Police confirmed after the fatal crash Schneider \u201cwas unfit to operate a motor vehicle and that his alertness, sense of care and caution, perception, judgment, response time and coordination were markedly impaired by alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n

The children and their parents had taken their own separate boat to meet up with Schneider in his wife at MJ\u2019s Restaurant in Bayville on July 19.<\/p>\n

After dinner, the children, Mya Golabek, 9, and her brother Sigmund Paul Golabek, 7, wanted to go back to their grandparents\u2019 house and the families split up.<\/p>\n

On the way back, Schneider smashed his 30-foot Tidewater 280 into a wood channel marker and sent the kids flying into the waters around 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

Read more Hayden Panettiere was on \u2018bag of medication\u2019 at time of death \u2014 as cops reveal boyfriend\u2019s strange reaction to her \u2018overdose\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Both the kids were wearing life jackets, but they were found face-down in the water.<\/p>\n

Schneider and his wife pulled the children from the water and started performing CPR, but they later both died at the hospital.<\/p>\n

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Schneider was charged Friday with two counts of reckless vessel homicide\/death by vessel \u2014 a second-degree charge \u2014 as well as operating a vessel under the influence and reckless operation of a vessel.<\/p>\n

Public records show that Schneider lives in a ritzy waterfront two bedroom three bath $1 million home in Bayville, Ocean County.<\/p>\n

Read more Brian Hickerson was on scene of Hayden Panettiere emergency \u2014 but didn\u2019t get emotional until she was pronounced dead<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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