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The teenage driver accused of fatally mowing down a retired police chief riding a bicycle on a Las Vegas highway should be tried as an adult, prosecutors said Monday as the victim’s wife reportedly called to “outrage in the courtrooms”.
Andreas Probst, 64, was deliberately hit by a Hyundai around 6 a.m. on August 14 and a 17-year-old driver was arrested in the shocking hit-and-run caught on camera.
The teen faces a murder charge that was filed in the juvenile system, but the Clark County prosecutor said in a news release Monday that he wants to charge the suspect as an adult.
The district attorney’s office and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police are also searching for a second suspect — also apparently a teenager — who was laughing while filming the horrific incident, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
“I am confident that justice will be served in this case once the investigation is complete and the appropriate charges are filed,” Clark County Prosecutor Steve Wolfson said in a statement.
The driver has not been identified because of his age.
The hit-and-run gained national attention over the weekend when a clip of it exploded on social media.
As the driver approached the cyclist, he asked his friend “ready?” as filmed by the laughing passenger.
“Yeah, he hit his ass,” he told the driver before attacking the pensioner.
After the cyclist was struck, the car sped off on North Tenaya Way.
Probst’s grieving wife, Crystal Probst, told Fox News Digital that her loved one’s killing was the result of the national backlash against police and the lack of sufficient punishment for criminals.
“It’s not just about one victim. As a nation, we are victims. We are victims of senseless crimes,” she said in her first public statement since police announced a murder charge against the driver.
“We all need to come forward and show our outrage in the courtrooms. »
Following the deliberate accident, Probst was taken to University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
The former cop had moved to Sin City after retiring as police chief in Bell, Calif., in 2009, according to reports.
“Honestly, he was like a ray of sunshine,” Taylor Probst said of his father at a memorial service, according to KLAS. “It bled into your life.”
“Everyone who knew him,” she also said. “Liked it.”
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