Las Vegas Accused Murderers Reportedly Laugh at Victim’s Family in Court
One of ii teenage slay defendants reportedly gave the victim’s still-grieving fellowship the midsection digit inwards Las Vegas homage on Tuesday.
The victim’s girl and widow saw Deliverer Ayala, 18, and Jzamir Keys, 16, “flip them off” while ready and waiting(p) for a court of justice audition to start, according to the DailyMail.com.
Ayala and Keys were reportedly smiling and laughing patch sounding at the deuce women.
They are charged with execution in the Aug 14 death of Andreas “Andy” Probst, 64, who they allegedly ran into with their car patch he horseback riding a bicycle. Probst was the retired chief of the Bell, Calif. police force department.
When asked virtually the teens’ conduct on Tuesday, and that Keys took a picture showing the ii laughing when they allegedly killed her father, Elizabeth Taylor Probst told reporters it enraged her.
“How put up you sit at that place after taking a man’s lifetime and act ilk such an entitled p****,” the 27-year-old told reporters.
Intimidation Attempt
“They started trying to restrain us, mad Canis familiaris us,” Probst told Las Vegas TV place KLAS. “These guys, they did not value the courtroom whatsoever.”
“It just makes him look bad,” Crystal Probst, at present a widow at age 60, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal about the obscene gesture.
Taylor Probst said the teens’ behavior further “shows that they really experience no remorse, that this is just now a game to them. Like they really don’t attention if anyone else lives or dies,” KLAS reported.
She also blamed the defendants’ parents and others in their lives for the teens’ behavior.
Ayala’s female parent previously told KLAS, “I don’t cognise wherefore he did this. I don’t experience if God canful forgive this.”
Trial Dates
On Tuesday, Mark Clark County District Margaret Court Judge Jacqueline Bluth readiness trial dates inwards both cases for Sept. 16, 2024. Both teens are beingness tried as adults.
Keys is represented by Las Vegas-based attorney Dan Hill, who specializes inward outlaw cases. Ayala is represented by St. David Westbrook, who workings for the local public defender’s office.
The two have pleaded not guilty and remain inward jailhouse patch they await lawcourt proceedings.
Because of their ages at the clip of the crimes, if convicted they can’t find the expiry penalty. They do human face decades inwards prison if found guilty.
In add-on to murder, the teens are supercharged with attempted murder, flunk to layover at the scene of a crash, battery, residential burglary, grand thieving of a vehicle, and ownership of a stolen vehicle.
The traffic human death took shoes at well-nigh 6 a.m. nigh the crossing of Tenaya Way and Centennial Parkway, placed virtually 16 miles from the Las Vegas Strip.
Before striking Probst, the two also allegedly rammed their gondola into another elderly bicyclist. That victim survived. They to boot rammed their railroad car into ease another vehicle and stole at least tierce cars, police force said.
Remembering Her Husband
While inward court of justice on Tuesday, Crystal Probst wore her later(a) husband’s Disney-style smartwatch that was damaged when he was thrown and twisted from the bicycle. It’s a right smart for her to feel his front yet after his passing, she explained.
“Keeping him faithful reminds me he’s here with me in the courthouse, you know, to struggle for him,” Crystal Probst said.