One among two youngsters charged within the dying of a retired police chief who they allegedly ran over as he was bicycling on a Las Vegas street has been discovered unfit to face trial.
Jesus Ayala, now 19, has been moved from jail to a safe Nevada psychiatric facility for analysis, therapy and attainable trial if he’s discovered competent, based on cowl data. The dedication order suspends felony expenses in opposition to him.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to his public protection lawyer, David Westbrook.
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Ayala and Jzamir Keys, then 16, pleaded not responsible final yr to homicide and different expenses within the dying of Andreas “Andy” Probst, 64, a retired former police chief within the Los Angeles suburb of Bell.
Probst was using his bicycle in August 2023, when video confirmed he was struck from behind by the motive force of an alleged stolen automotive and left fatally injured on the aspect of the street.
Within the video of the hit-and-run, the motive force asks, “Prepared?” because the guffawing passenger data the collision on his iPhone.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, hit his a–,” he tells the motive force, who then veers the Hyundai Elantra into the bike lane behind Probst, who’s sporting a purple shirt and shorts as he pedals.
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The passenger turns, factors his iPhone out the window and data Probst rolling to a cease on the aspect of the street.
“Rattling, that n—- received knocked out!” the passenger says within the 31-second clip.
“Oh, s—, we have to get out of right here,” the panicked driver replies as he steps on the gasoline.
Probst was taken to a hospital the place he died. Police arrested Ayala later that very same day, and he allegedly bragged that he would get off simply as a juvenile.
“I will be out in thirty days,” he was allegedly captured saying on an officer’s physique digicam.
The officer replied, “You may be out of juvie in thirty days and moved to an grownup jail, as a result of that is how unhealthy it’s.”
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The incident report famous that Ayala confirmed no regret for the person’s dying. “It is only a, f——, ah, hit-and-run. Slap on the wrist,” the teenager flippantly advised the officer.
Keys was arrested days later after he shared the sick footage with pals on Instagram, and the video began circulating at his native highschool.
Fox Information Digital’s Rebecca Rosenberg in addition to The Related Press contributed to this report.