But despite having some damning charges against her in this true crime case, Grossman was released after posting a bail of $2 million on October 1st. Grossman’s white Mercedes involved in the double fatal crash suffered front-end damage and was also towed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. After smashing the car into the boys, Grossman apparently carried one of them on the hood of her car for over 100 feet before she applied the brakes, causing the boy to stumble into the street. Investigators believed Grossman was under the influence of alcohol during the crime and was street racing. And going by her biography on the Foundation’s official site, she has worked extensively in the healthcare field for over two decades as a researcher, journalist, and marketing executive. Grossman is the wife of Peter Grossman, a prominent plastic & reconstructive surgeon and president of the Grossman Burn Foundation at West Hills Hospital. They arrested her on suspicion of two counts of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence, as per the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The night of the boys’ murder, Rebecca Grossman, the co-founder & chair of the Grossman Burn Foundation, was booked. A makeshift memorial of candles & flowers was placed at the site of the crash while dozens of mourners gathered to pay their respects.
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They were like two angels.”Īccording to KTLA, the two boys’ deaths incited a torrent of love & sympathy in their community. “Most of them are deacons, they’re serving in the church, attending Sunday school. “They were sweet little boys,” Mirette Fouad, whose son was friends with boys, told KTLA. Jacob Iskander was a student of Ascension Lutheran School in Thousand Oaks and Mark was a sixth-grader at Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village. “The mother and father were able to pull the other two children back in time, and the vehicle struck the two other children”. It is a very tragic situation,” Los Angeles County sheriff’s Captain Salvador Becerra reported. “The children were walking with their family. He was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Mark died from the impact while Jacob was critically injured. The elder siblings, Mark & Jacob Iskander were struck right in front of their parents by a Mercedes that whizzed past the scene. The mother reacted in time and saved two of her children from being hit, including a daughter who was in a stroller. Suddenly, the parents heard a car rapidly approaching the intersection. On the evening of September 29th, 2020, a father & mother were crossing the road with their four children at Triunfo Canyon Road in Westlake Village. What will result from this appalling crime? Within a blink of an eye, a family was destroyed and two young boys lost their lives in a true crime tragedy that shook the community. Grossman smashed her car into the two boys, Mark & Jacob Iskander, and fled the scene. A judge eventually ruled that the boys should live with their grandmother.By: Aishwarya Sinha True crime: The socialite who broke up an LA family – with murderĪ well-known LA socialite, Rebecca Grossman, has been accused of murdering two young boys in a terrible true crime incident. Potier claimed that Browne swerved the car to absorb the impact of the crash to save her life.įollowing his death, his estranged wife (Noreen) Nicky launched a public legal battle for custody of their two young children Browne's mother, Lady Oranmore and Browne, also sought custody. He died of his injuries the following day. Browne failed to see a traffic light and proceeded through the junction of Redcliffe Square and Redcliffe Gardens, colliding with a parked lorry. He was under the influence of alcohol and other drugs at the time. On 17 December 1966, Browne was driving with his girlfriend, model Suki Potier, in his Lotus Elan through South Kensington at high speed (some reports suggesting in excess of 106 mph/170 km/h). His life is captured by Paul Howard in the biography I Read the News Today, Oh Boy, published in 2016. įor his 21st birthday, he threw a "lavish" party at Luggala, the Gothic family seat in the Wicklow Mountains, where "two private jets flew the 200 or so guests to Ireland, including John Paul Getty, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones Jones' then-girlfriend Anita Pallenberg." In August 1963, at age 18, he married Noreen "Nicky" MacSherry, and had two sons, Dorian and Julian. īrowne was a member of Swinging London's counterculture of the 1960s and had stood to inherit £1 million at age 25. Browne was the son of the 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, an Anglo-Irish peer and a member of the House of Lords who served in that house for 72 years, longer than any other peer up to that time, finally being evicted during government reforms in 1999 and Oonagh Guinness, an heiress to the Guinness fortune.