Video allegedly shows teen driver intentionally striking retired police chief in deadly bike crash | EUROtoday

A disturbing video is now circulating that allegedly captured the second {that a} teen driver intentionally rammed right into a bicyclist in Las Vegas earlier than driving away.

The video purportedly shows the second retired police officer Andreas Probst was struck and killed on 14 August. However, police haven’t confirmed a hyperlink between the video and the Probst case.

“Two teens stole a car and filmed themselves murdering an innocent cyclist for laughs,” funding banker John LeFevre wrote on X, alongside the video.

The driver and the passenger, who’s recording the video, are laughing as one may be heard saying “yeah, hit his a**” simply earlier than the automotive smashes into the bicyclist, who’s propelled off of his bike and onto the automotive. The car appeared to by no means cease shifting.

“Damn” he “got knocked out!” the passenger may be heard saying whereas the video pans to the person mendacity on the aspect of the freeway. The automotive can then be heard accelerating.

The Independent has reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

The video emerged on-line after a 17-year-old was arrested on prices “related to the hit and run” that killed Probst.

Police mentioned that they obtained a report round 6am on 14 August {that a} bicyclist had been struck by a car. Probst was affected by “life-threatening injuries” when officers arrived on the scene.

He was transported to a hospital and pronounced deceased.

Two weeks after the teen suspect’s arrest, on 29 August, “detectives learned of a social media video depicting the incident, and after viewing the video, determined this was an intentional act.”

Police added that murder detectives took over the investigation and “will be amending the juvenile’s charges to include open murder.” Because the driver is a minor, he has not been named publicly.

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Probst was a police chief in California, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, and had spent 35 years in regulation enforcement. He retired in 2009 and moved to a distant job in international safety, the outlet wrote.