Student, 23, accused of killing psychologist, 68, after hitting him with his McLaren sports car in LA appears in court on $250,000 bail
Ka Leung Chan wore a mask as he kept his eyes low at the Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday as he attended the arraignment for vehicular manslaughter
Chan, had been driving a McLaren when he struck 68-year-old Larry D. Brooks on May 4, 2020
Brooks wife, Anna Marie Piersimoni, was in attendance for the hearing
In addition to the vehicular manslaughter charge, Chan also faces a wrongful-death lawsuit
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Early last May, Larry Brooks told his wife he was going for a walk in the Arts District. He left their loft about 11 a.m., and soon after, his wife, Anna Marie Piersimoni, heard sirens. Then the police knocked on her door.
Brooks, a 68-year-old psychologist, had been struck and killed by a speeding McLaren sports car, a roughly $280,000 vehicle designed to go as fast as 200 miles an hour. The 23-year-old driver, a student, was arrested and charged with reckless driving and vehicular manslaughter.
About a month ago, 32-year-old office assistant Monique Munoz was heading home to Hawthorne after work one evening. Her parents wondered why she was so late, but Munoz, who wanted to be an attorney, didn’t answer her phone. Eventually, a police officer did.