Former Dodgers Pitcher Scott Erickson admitted in court that he sped up when he saw two children about to walk onto the street just before the boys were run down and killed in 2020.
“I stepped on the gas for probably two or three seconds to get through, because I thought that was the safest process,” Erickson said in court in Van Nuys on May 13 during a wrongful death trial brought by the family of the boys who were killed, Mark and Jacob Iskander, 11 and 8, the New York Post reported.
The two children were run down and killed when they walked out onto a crosswalk at Triunfo Canyon Road in Westlake Village. Their mother and younger brother were with them. But in seconds, two racing cars were upon them, one of which struck the two boys and killed them.
Witnesses have said that Erickson was driving his
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