Ex-Dodger saw Rebecca Grossman fatally hit boys in crosswalk, former MLB player says on stand

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Former Major League Baseball player Royce Clayton took the stand in Rebecca Grossman’s wrongful death civil trial on Friday, recalling how he learned the Grossman Burn Foundation co-founder had fatally struck two boys with her car in a Westlake Village crosswalk.With tears in his eyes, Clayton testified that ex-Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson told him he saw Grossman run over the two brothers in his rearview mirror as she tailed him at a “high rate of speed” in her Mercedes.“I don’t know if he used the word racing, but they were traveling at a high rate of speed.She was directly behind him, and he said as he came up to this crosswalk, he saw the children,” Clayton said inside the Van Nuys courtroom, where both Grossman and Erickson are on civil trial in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Jacob and Mark Iskander.On Sept.

29, 2020, Nancy Iskander was crossing the street in Westlake Village with her sons, 5, 8 and 11 years old, in tow.As they crossed, Iskander was able to pull her youngest son out of the way, but Jacob and Mark were hit and launched into the air.According to testimony at her criminal trial, Grossman had been drinking with Erickson, her boyfriend at the time, and Clayton at a restaurant.Grossman and Erickson were headed to her home to watch a presidential debate that evening when the crash occurred.She is serving 15 years to life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder.On Friday, Clayton, a longtime friend and former teammate, recalled receiving a dramatic call from Erickson moments after the collision.

Clayton testified that Erickson told him that he and Grossman were “flying down” Triunfo Canyon Road when he swerved to avoid two boys in the crosswalk.Under questioning from the Iskander family’s attorney, Brian Panish, Clayton acknowledged that Erickson said he saw Grossman hit the boys.Recalling the conversation, ...