Former MLB pitcher Scott Erickson allegedly threatened the daughter of his girlfriend, a Los Angeles socialite, to keep quiet after she found him hiding in the bushes near the scene of a hit-and-run that killed two young siblings. Ru.
Police question 19-year-old Alexis Grossman’s mother, Rebecca Grossman, after 8-year-old Jacob Iskander and his brother Mark Iskander were killed in a tragic street race between ex-girlfriends. He testified that he spotted Scott Erickson hiding in the shadows. , 11 on September 29, 2020.
She then recalled how Erickson desperately confronted her after breaking into her parents’ home shortly after the accident.
“Why did my mom quit? Why did my mom quit?” Grossman argued in Friday’s testimony. According to the LA Times. “He seemed very angry. He was frantic. I could smell the alcohol on him. He was panicking. I was scared.”
While panicking and enraged, Erickson is said to have told the boy: “Don’t tell anyone you saw me or I’ll destroy you and your family.” There is.
Grossman told the jury that he was on his way to deliver a pizza when he spotted his mother’s white Mercedes and police car and jumped to her side.
“I ran toward her. I was screaming, ‘Mommy, mommy,’ but I was stopped by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy as I tried to approach the 60-year-old man,” Grossman added.
Grossman said that when she turned to leave, she saw Erickson emerge from a hiding spot in the bushes behind a tree before the two looked at each other, the newspaper reported.
“He stuck his head out and we made eye contact,” Grossman said.
Rebecca Grossman faces two counts of second-degree murder for her alleged role in the deadly incident in Westlake Village and could face up to 34 years in prison.
Her lawyers used testimony from Alexis Grossman to strengthen their defense, arguing that the car that first struck the boys was Erickson’s black Mercedes SUV, not Grossman’s white Mercedes.
The two jumped over a crosswalk on Triunfo Canyon Road at Saddle Mountain Drive, where Nancy Iskander was crossing with her three sons, before Grossman tailed Erickson. He is accused of drinking alcohol at a nearby restaurant.
A breathalyzer test of the socialite after the accident revealed a blood alcohol content of 0.076%. According to the newspaper.
It was also discovered that barium was detected in her blood.
The younger Grossman was questioned by a Los Angeles County deputy. Atty. Why didn’t Ryan Gould tell the deputy at the scene that he saw Erickson hiding?
“I wish I had done that,” she replied, “but if I had, we wouldn’t be here now.”
Alexis Grossman told her then-separated parents about the sighting in 2021, after her mother’s lawyer advised her not to tell anyone at the time.
Later that year, Grossman recalled that she was asked if Erickson had visited the family’s home in Westlake that night, and she said no.
“I wasn’t trying to protect anyone,” Grossman said Friday. “He was a big guy, he was a baseball player…It was scary.”
