The tennis star of the Loyola High School, “a shining presence”, killed in Manhattan Beach Crash; Dui -suspect is arrested

Only last month the Loyola High School in Los Angeles celebrated Senior Braun Levi because he had moved into the top ranks of the boys in the top tennis.

The 18-year-old won another victory a few days ago and won the League Double championship mission. In a photo, the radiant Levi stands next to teammate Cooper Schwartz and holds up four fingers – one for each of his four double championships subsequently.

These successes had to be a bit of balm for the Levi family and just a few months after their home in Pacific Palisades was burned in January. The family had moved to South Bay.

It felt beyond the understanding when Loyola school director Jamal Adam's pupils and employees of the Catholic Jesuit school sent by e -mail on Sunday to tell them that Levi had been killed in a traffic accident a month before his Abitur.

“Braun was a bright presence in our Loyola family,” wrote Adams: “Bring light, joy and inspiration for everyone he touched.”

The headmaster invited the Loyola School family to a prayer vigil on the campus on Sunday evening. “All members of our community are welcome to join us when we gather in unity and memory,” wrote Adams.

Manhattan Beach's police said that they had a 33-year-old woman in Los Angeles on suspicion of drunken driving and murder in connection with the crash, which they occurred after midnight on Sunday morning.

In a short press release from the department, it only says that a call was received at 12:46 p.m. due to a traffic accident with a pedestrian in the 100 block of the South Sepulveda Boulevard. They found the victim that they did not identify and were on the street.

The police declaration states that Jenia Belt from Los Angeles had been arrested during the crash. Belt stayed in the Manhattan Beach prison on Sunday, a commander of the police observation said.

Friends showered Levis Social -Media accounts with homage to him. Levi should visit the University of Virginia in autumn.

“Anyone who learned that they know how lucky they are,” said a message. “You have never met a stranger and an impact on everyone you met. I will live and love as big every day.”

Another said: “No matter whether they were lucky enough to cross the paths with him for an hour or a lifetime, he left an impression. It was impossible to always be too bored when there was brown nearby, and his gift to raise the people around him was really unique.”

The pictures of Levi's social media indicate prototypical education in Southern California. He waded in a high Sierra lake with his family, arm in arm with friends on the beach, for a selfie with the actor Adam Sandler and a pink suit and a fedora next to a horse lane.

Another Loyola High Schither athlete died two years ago in the last weeks of his high school career. Ryan Times, a pitcher in the baseball team, was hit and killed in April 2023 when the school was during the spring holiday.

Brian, coach of the Loyola Varsity Tennis Team, Levi, a three -year -old captain, “probably the most decorated player who has ever played for school”.

Levi also kept in AP economics and statistics. “We are all stunned, destroyed and with this tragedy with a broken heart,” said by e -mail. “Braun was the most amazing, all-round leader, whom all loved ones, even his opponents. He was only this kind of child and and special. As one of his teachers, I saw how he brought everyone to be happy.”

Levi is survived by his parents and an older sister.

The author of the times, Eric Sonic Sondheimer, contributed to this report.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.