Print 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.