The Las Vegas teens accused of mowing down a retired police chief have also been accused of killing a second bicyclist.
Jesus Ayala, 18, and Jzamir Keys, 16, are suspected of deliberately hitting Andreas Probst, 64, as he rode his bicycle along an empty highway.
Sources said 8 News Now that on August 14, the pair allegedly tried to kill a second cyclist, stole three cars and committed a burglary within two hours.
Ayala is facing 18 charges in connection with the incident, including murder, attempted murder, assault with use of a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of an accident, and numerous separate charges of theft and burglary.
Officers arrested Ayala hours after he allegedly drove into Probst and told officers he wouldn’t be locked up for long.
Jesus Ayala, 18, was arrested hours after he allegedly drove into Andreas Probst, 64, and told officers he wouldn’t be locked up for long.
The passenger, Jzamir Keys, 16, is accused of filming the sick footage of the attack, which saw the retired officer teased as they collided with him.
Ayala told police, “Do you think this young person (expletive) is going to do something (expletive)? I bet I’ll be out in thirty days.”
He added, “It’s just ah, (expletive) ah, hit-and-run – slap on the wrist,” despite police not yet telling him about the accident, according to KLAS. His comments were captured on police body cameras.
Police had only arrested him for a warrant and obstructing a peace officer, but discovered the sick images of Probst being hit by a car on his phone.
They also found a second video of a Kia Soul crashing into another cyclist, with the footage apparently recorded by Ayala, who appeared to be the car’s passenger.
His passenger, Jzamir Keys, 16, is accused of filming the sick footage of the attack, which saw the retired officer teased as they collided with him.
Keys was arrested this week and appeared with his co-defendants for their arraignment in Las Vegas court Thursday afternoon, wearing navy blue uniforms from the Clark County Detention Center.
Ayala, who has a large tattoo on his right cheek, said nothing during the hearing.
His mother said she “doesn’t know” if her son, who was 17 at the time, can be forgiven for his alleged crimes.
She previously told 8 News Now: “I don’t know why he did this. I don’t know if God can forgive this.’
Probst, 64, was fatally struck on August 14 while cycling in northwest Las Vegas. Footage filmed by the passenger shows he was deliberately killed by the teenage driver
Alaya showed no remorse for the alleged murder of Andy Probst (pictured) after he was taken into custody, and has now been charged with 18 charges, including murder
Keys, who was detained this week after a police appeal for information, is believed to be the passenger who instigated the attack and filmed a sick video
Key’s mother promised that his “side of the story” would be told, labeling it “the truth,” rather than the “inaccuracies the media will try to portray.”
During an earlier court hearing, two of Keys’ family members were crying, and one of Ayala’s female relatives was also present.
She shielded her face and held back tears as she walked past reporters outside the courtroom, according to the Journal.
Ayala has a long criminal history in child welfare, according to 8 News Now, while Keys was placed in child protective services at the age of eight.
Keys’ mother was charged with five counts of child abuse in 2016 after police found her five children – aged between two and nine – home alone with no access to food, a knife left on the kitchen counter and the house in poor condition, according to reports the police. the canal.
Police said they also tied the teens to at least three hit-and-run incidents the same day. They believe the killing of Probst, a former police chief in Bell, California, ended the wave.
Graphic video shows a dashboard view from the front seat of a vehicle approaching Probst from behind as he drove along the curb on an otherwise traffic-free road.
The teen is accused of deliberately striking Probst with the stolen Hyundai Elantra as he rode his bicycle along an empty highway in the city’s northwest around 6 a.m. on August 14.
Laughter and commentary are heard from inside the car before Probst, wearing a red shirt and dark shorts, was punched and thrown against the windshield.
A final image of the moving car shows the retired top cop on the ground next to the curb.
Deputy Police Chief Nick Farese called the “intentional” collision in a stolen vehicle and the sick video “an act of cowardice that has personally shocked me in my 22 years in law enforcement.”
At a news conference Tuesday, Taylor Probst described her father — known to loved ones as “Andy” — as a man of honor and integrity who spent more than 35 years in law enforcement.
“We are devastated by Andy’s senseless murder,” she said. “Andy’s life was taken by two individuals who did not believe the lives of others mattered.”
Probst urged prosecutors to “bring these crimes to the fullest extent of the law.”