Drivers in the fatal PCH crash, in which four Pepperdine were killed in order to provide court hearing

Man who was accused

The 23 -year -old Fraser Michael Bohm was answered with gross negligence in four cases of murder and four charges of the vehicle. A judge decided on Wednesday after a preliminary hearing in front of the Supreme Court of Los Angeles County in Van Nuys. Bohm is to be charged on July 1st.

The prosecutors claim that Bohm drove in the night of October 17, 2023 with a notorious curve along PCH at a speed of up to 104 miles -between which Las Flores Canyon and Carbon Canyon -Straßen, a section that was colloquially known as a “dead man curve” -when he lost control of his vehicle and met four peditrians.

The victims, all seniors at the Seaver College of Liberal Arts from Pepperdine University, were identified as Niamh Rolston, 20; Peyton Stewart, 21; Asha Weir, 21; And Deslyn Williams, 21. All four were members of Alpha Phi Sorority and posthumously graduated.

Bohm, who was 20 years old at the time of the crash, supposedly turned into the parked vehicles on the shoulder of the highway on which the women were standing. During the investigation, Bohm reported that he had hit his driver's mirror after another vehicle and defeated him from the course.

The sheriff of Los Angeles County Sgt. Jim Arens said after the accident that the investigators found “no evidence” to support Bohm's claim that the incident was due to an encounter with the street with another vehicle.

If they are convicted in all cases, Bohm could confront several lifelong sentences.

The parents of four students from Pepperdine University, who were hit and killed along the Pacific Coast Highway last year, submitted complaints in which it was claimed that several governmental authorities did not take into account well -known security risks on the street.

In separate complaints, which were submitted in front of the Santa Monica Superior Court, the families sue the state of California, Caltrans, the California coastal commission, the County Los Angeles and the city of Malibu and claim that everyone is responsible for maintaining an unsafe section of the Pacific Coast Highway.