Woman who plowed into high school tennis star walking through intersection is charged with murder: DA

A California pistillate with a grounds of drunk driving arrests was charged with execution successful transportation with a crash that killed a precocious schoolhouse tennis star.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged 33-year-old Jenia Resha Belt with second-degree murder, according to a press release from the Manhattan Beach Police Department. Belt was taken into custody connected Dec. 23, months aft she was initially arrested connected May 4 astatine the country of the clang that killed 18-year-old Braun Levi. She is being held connected $2 cardinal bail.

Police said that Belt was intoxicated erstwhile she was down the instrumentality of the SUV that struck Levi, who was walking with a person crossed Sepulveda Boulevard successful Manhattan Beach, California, astatine 12:45 a.m. connected May 4. Belt was allegedly driving with a licence that was suspended arsenic a effect of a erstwhile drunk driving apprehension from 2023.

First responders recovered Levi successful the road. He was transported to a hospital, wherever helium succumbed to his injuries.

According to tribunal records obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Belt had a humor intoxicant level astir twice the ineligible limit astatine the clip of the collision. She was arrested astatine the country aft the 4 passengers successful her conveyance fled. Belt was released from custody successful June, but arrested again months later, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Levi was a precocious schoolhouse tennis prima whose household mislaid their location successful the Palisades wildfires successful January. They had conscionable moved to Manhattan Beach 4 months earlier calamity struck the household again. Levi's  household started a instauration in representation of their precocious son.

In November, Levi's household filed a $200 cardinal wrongful decease suit against Belt.

Belt is charged with second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter portion intoxicated, and driving with a suspended license. She is scheduled to beryllium arraigned successful Los Angeles County connected Dec. 31.