Rebecca Grossman, ex-boyfriend were racing when 2 boys were killed in crosswalk, lawyer alleges
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Rebecca Grossman and her ex-boyfriend were racing their cars while intoxicated when she struck and killed two young brothers in 2020, an attorney for the boys’ parents told a jury Friday during opening statements of a civil wrongful death trial.Grossman, 62, is already serving a sentence of 15 years to life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in the deaths of Mark and Jacob Iskander, ages 11 and 8.During her high-profile 2024 criminal trial, Grossman’s lawyers sought to portray her then-boyfriend, former Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson, as the person responsible, and claimed it was his SUV, not hers, that first struck the boys.But on Friday, Brian Panish, an attorney for Nancy and Karim Iskander, put the blame on both Erickson and Grossman, the co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation.“They were racing, you are going to hear,” Panish told jurors, showing snippets of video depositions from numerous people who witnessed the deadly crash on Sept.
29, 2020.“At least six people saw it.” California Rebecca Grossman is sentenced to 15 years in prison for the deaths of two boys she struck in her speeding SUV as they crossed the street.Panish said Grossman was intoxicated by a combination of benzodiazepines and alcohol, and that Erickson was also inebriated as they drove to her rental home from a restaurant where they had been drinking.The two were driving down Triunfo Canyon Road in Westlake Village when Mark and Jacob crossed the street with their mother and younger brother at Saddle Mountain Drive.
Nancy Iskander at the criminal trial testified she began to cross on inline skates with her youngest son, Zachary, next to her on his scooter.Mark, on a skateboard, and Jacob, also wearing inline skates, followed a little over an arm’s length behind.
“Because Mr.Erickson is racing, and he’s in the first lane, he blocks off the boys ability to escape...