In the US, young people accused of killing former police officer laugh at trial

Jesús Ayala and Jzamir Keys, the two Las Vegas teens charged ​​of fatally running over Andreas Probst, a 64-year-old retired police chief, they laughed at each other, smiled and apparently criticized their victim's family during a court hearing earlier this week. The young men, ages 18 and 16, respectively, returned to court Tuesday more than two months after they allegedly recorded themselves intentionally crashing into the former officer who was taking a morning bike ride.

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The teens' antics began when they sat for the hearing in Clark County Court (for Las Vegas), covering the right side of their faces to hide from the cameras before appearing to cover their mouths to suppress their anger. laughter. The teenagers, who were minors when Probst was murderedwere charged with murder and are being tried as adults.

The two teens who murdered retired police officer Andreas Probst were spotted laughing and joking in court today.

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Andreas' family criticized the teens' heinous actions, saying they "really had no remorse."

“How can you sit there after taking a man's life and act like such an entitled cretin?” Taylor Probst, Andreas' 27-year-old daughter, told reporters outside the courthouse. "They really didn't have any remorse, because to them this is just a game." Jesus' public defender, David Westbrook, also appeared to laugh alongside the teen in the courtroom on Tuesday, local media video shows.

The young man's attorney expressed frustration with the release of the body camera footage, saying he should be able to view it before the media, which obtained the video through a public records request. He also said he is concerned about not finding fair juries for the case because of the viral media attention, which angered Probst's widow.

“It was his people who put it in the media first, his clients are the ones who put it on social media,” Crystal Probst said, referring to the drive-by view of August's gruesome murder. "They were just trying to pick on us and intimidate us, which didn't work," Taylor Probst added.

Jesus and Jzamir, with their hands cuffed to a “belly chain,” smiled at the Probst family as they left the courtroom. Crystal Probst, who was carrying her late husband's damaged Apple Watch, was unfazed by the duo's intimidation tactics. “She just makes him look bad,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, saying Jesus gave her the middle finger.

During his initial arrest on August 14, Jesus told police he would be released from jail in 30 days. In body camera footage released Monday, the 18-year-old asked the officer if the crash was “really that bad.”

“Is it really that serious, like, really, that I supposedly crashed a car?”: Jesús asked the officer who was transporting him after his arrest. “Do you think I'm going to be on the news?” he later asked the officer. “It won't be any good, it won't make your mom proud,” the officer responded.

Jesus' mother has made headlines, saying she didn't understand why her son did what he did. Taylor Probst blames the families of both young men as the main people who failed them to commit the crime.

“A lot of different people failed, but I think ultimately it was the parents in every way. “They are the ones who failed.”

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