Two teenagers in Las Vegas are about to spend the rest of their lives behind bars for what appears to be a stupid, insanely cruel attempt to look brave and go viral online. We used ChatGPT to write about the incident that shocked not only Las Vegas, but the entire world.
In recent weeks, a video has circulated online documenting a campaign of destruction and killing carried out by two Las Vegas teenagers on August 14, while driving masked in a stolen car; First, they deliberately collide with their car with another car driving on the road alongside them, causing it to veer off the road. They then spot a cyclist pedaling on the side of the road. They giggle as the photographer encourages his friend: "Hit his ass." The car enters the rider with a force that causes it to fly and roll from the hood to the windshield, to the roof of the vehicle, and on to the road behind it. The photographer even takes the trouble to point his iPhone backwards to document the body of the rider sprawled on the road.
This week, the Las Vegas Police Department held a press conference about the shocking video. Deputy Police Chief Nick Parsa said the youths deliberately sought to harm innocent people, calling the video an "act of cowardice." Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson announced that he takes personal responsibility for the prosecution against the boys and expressed his determination to try them as adults. "Justice will come out in this case," he said.
Police noted that in addition to the two accidents documented in the video, which received millions of views on X (formerly Twitter) before it was removed, and millions more in less public shares on apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram, the youths also hit another cyclist, 72, who survived the impact. The victim of their third hit-and-run accident was 64-year-old Andreas René Probst, a former police chief for Bell, near Las Vegas, California. He was taken to hospital but died of his injuries within a short time.
During the press conference, Taylor Probst, the victim's daughter, described her father as a man of dignity and integrity, who dedicated more than 35 years to law enforcement. She described the incident as a senseless murder that destroyed her family.
The 17-year-old driver was arrested the same day, but the initial charge against him was related to his reckless driving. Just weeks later, a school employee provided investigators with the video evidence circulated among the students, leading to the change of charge to murder. The video also revealed the presence of the photographer, who was arrested this week.
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