Las Vegas teens accused of killing Andreas Probst, laugh, flip of victims family during court hearin
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Two Las Vegas teens accused of fatally running over a retired police chief laughed at each other, smiled, and seemingly flipped off their victim’s family during a court hearing earlier this week.
Jesus Ayala, 18, and Jzamir Keys, 16, were back in court on Tuesday more than two months after they allegedly recorded themselves intentionally plowing into Andreas Probst, a 64-year-old retired police chief, who was out on a morning bike ride.
The teens’ antics began when they sat down for the hearing in Clark County court, covering the right side of their faces to hide themselves from the cameras before appearing to cover their mouths to suppress their laughter.
The teens, who were both minors when Probst was killed, were charged with murder and are being tried as adults.
Probst’s family slammed the teens’ appalling actions, saying they “really had no remorse.”
“How can you sit there after taking a man’s life, and act like such an entitled p—k?” Taylor Probst, Andreas’ 27-year-old daughter, told reporters outside the courthouse. “They really had no remorse, that this is just a game to them.”
Ayala’s public defender, David Westbrook, also appeared to be laughing alongside the teen in the courtroom on Tuesday, video from KTNV shows.
Westbrook expressed his frustration with the release of the bodycam footage, saying he should be able to see it before the media, which obtained the video through a public records request.
The public defender also said he is concerned about finding fair jurors for the case because of the viral media attention, which angered Probst’s widow.
“It was your people who put it in the media first, your clients are the ones that put that on social media,” Crystal Probst said, referring to the in-car view of the horrific August killing.
“They were just trying to mad-dog us and intimidate us, which didn’t work,” Taylor Probst added.
Ayala and Keys, with their hands cuffed to a “belly chain,” turned to the gallery and smirked at the Probst family as they left the courtroom.
Crystal Probst, wearing her late husband’s damaged Apple Watch, remained unfazed by the deadly duo’s intimidation tactics.
“It just makes him look bad,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, saying Ayala pointed his middle finger toward her.
During his initial arrest on Aug. 14, Ayala told cops he would be released from jail in a month.
“You think this juvenile [expletive] is gonna do some [expletive]? I’ll be out in 30 days, I’ll bet you,” Ayala told officers after he was arrested in September.
In bodycam footage released Monday, the 18-year-old asked the officer whether the crash was “really that serious.”
“Is it really that serious, like for real, over supposedly me crashing a car?” Ayala asked the officer transporting him following his arrest.
“You think I’m gonna come out on the news?” Ayala later asked the officer.
“It won’t be for anything good, it won’t make your mama proud,” the officer responded.
Ayala’s mother has made headlines herself, saying she didn’t understand why her son did what he did.
“I don’t know why he did this,” Ayala said. “I don’t know if God can forgive this.”
Taylor Probst blames Ayala’s and Keys’ families as the main people who failed the teens.
“A multitude of different people failed, but I think ultimately the parents on all ends. They’re the ones that failed.”
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