Teenagers accused of killing a police officer laughed in court, in front of the victim’s family

The Las Vegas teenagers accused of they struck fatally by vehicle one retired police chief they were laughing during the trial. Jesus Ayala, 18, and Jzamir Keys, 16, were back in court last Tuesday, two months after they allegedly videotaped the intentional wounding of 64-year-old retired police chief Andreas Probst, who was out for his morning bike ride.

The laughter of teenagers started as soon as they sat down at the Clark County court hearing. The two were covering their faces from the cameras, but were “caught” trying to suppress their laughter by covering their mouths with their hands.

The two are charged with murder and tried as adults. The victim’s family criticized the teenagers’ horrific actions, saying they had “no remorse”. “How can you sit there after taking a man’s life and act like that?” Taylor Probst, Andreas’ 27-year-old daughter, told reporters outside court. “They really had no regrets. It seemed like it’s just a game to them.”

But Ayala’s defense attorney, David Westbrook, was also seen laughing with the teenager in the courtroom, according to the New York Post. After the footage was released, Westbrook expressed his frustration, saying he should have been able to see it before the media, but received the footage via a specific request.

The defense attorney also said he was worried about finding a fair jury in the case because of the media attention, which angered Probst’s widow. “Your people were the first to put it in the media, your customers are the ones to put it on social media,” Crystal Probst said. “Simply they were trying to drive us crazy and intimidate uswhich didn’t work,” Taylor Probst added.

Ayala and Keys, their hands tied as they left the courtroom, turned and smiled at the Probst family. Crystal Probst, wearing her husband’s damaged Apple Watch, remained uninvolved. “It makes him look bad,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, saying Ayala pointed his middle finger at her.

During his initial arrest on August 14, Ayala told officers he would be released in a month. “I’ll be out in 30 days. I bet you,” Ayala told officers after his arrest in September. In body camera footage released Monday, the 18-year-old asked the officer if the collision was “really that serious.” “Is it really that serious, like crashing a car?” He later asked the same officer, “Do you think I’m going to be in the news?”, to which the man replied, “It won’t be good. It won’t make your mom proud.” His mother had said: “I don’t know why he did this. I don’t know if God can forgive this.” Taylor Probst commented: “A lot of different people have failed, but I think ultimately parents bear the greatest responsibility. They are the ones who failed.”