Cash for accused Las Vegas drivers on 500,000 US dollars after the death of the High School Senior | Dishes

A judge set a deposit for the man on Saturday, which was accused of killing and killing a senior of the Las Vegas Valley High School while he was impaired with 500,000 US dollars.

The 37 -year -old Keenan Jackson from Las Vegas performed just a few steps from the main entrance of the Arbor View High School on Saturday morning after the collision along the North Buffalo Drive.

Jackson drove a Chevrolet Malibu from 2018 in 2018 when he hit an 18-year-old woman in Las Vegas in front of the school on Friday at 11:25 a.m., the Metropolitan Police Department announced in a press release on Friday.

Near the crash location on Friday, several Arbor View students and their parents said that the student killed was McKenzie Scott.

Scott, whose identity was not published by the Coroner's Office of Clark County from Saturday morning, was stored after the crash to the University Medical Center, where it was declared dead.

Friends said she was participating in the school's prom on Saturday evening and was supposed to graduate later this month.

During the short hearing on Saturday morning, Jackson's public defender Josie Bayudan said that Jackson moved from New York to Las Vegas in December to look for work.

Bayudan noticed a lack of crime history for Jackson, although Westmeyer agreed to the public prosecutor's office that he was a “danger to the community” before he agreed to the requested deposit of 500,000 US dollars.

Support of the school community

While the regional judicial center was largely empty on Saturday morning, some of the classmates from Scott took part in the hearing.

In the steps of the court building in downtown Las Vegas after the hearing, Arbor View said Senior Brayden Boulter, said that the school community had come together to mourn Scott.

“It is the beginning of May and it is this month in which we see new beginnings for our life,” said Boulter. “We were all on Cloud Nine (on Friday). During the fifth period, we heard that our degree walk was canceled out of nowhere, and then the rumors began to move what happened. The energy we had made 180.”

After the crash scene had been cleared on Friday afternoon and began to fall as a Twilight, the students and others arrived to build a temporary monument on the sidewalk along the Buffalo Drive.

In the event of darkness, several dozen people, mainly students, had a calm and prayed together before the group appeared after 10 p.m.

Previously, Adrianna Ornelas, senior at Arbor View, said reporters said that Scott was “a beautiful girl with a bright smile.”

“It was a bright sun on a very dark road,” said Ornelas when he came back. “Every person with whom she came into contact were happier in their presence.”

Ornelas said Scott planned to visit UNLV in autumn. Instead, their family members are forced to create funeral plans.

Problem area for pedestrians

According to court files, Jackson was charged with alcohol and/or controlled substance what led to death, and ruthless driving, both criminal offenses and without a valid driver's license.

On Friday, Jhone Ebert, the superintendent of the school district Clark County, described the death of the student as an “unimaginable loss” in a statement to X.

“She was a senior citizen – full of promises, shortly before graduation and was looking forward to a brilliant future,” said Ebert in the explanation.

Ebert encouraged people to “stay vigilant and careful, especially in areas near our schools”.

Even during the vigil on Friday evening, only a few steps from Scott zoomed off the assembled crowd from the position where Scott was beaten and clarified faster than the published speed limit.

Boulter said it was no secret that the area in the west of the school can be dangerous for pedestrians.

“Buffalo near Grand Teton (Drive) is a very terrible area,” said Boulter. “This is a hard road as a pedestrian. You have to be very careful in this crosswalk because there is a sweeping gymnasium there and only has to give better enforcement and better lights there. It must be a kind of signal or something there.”

Scott's death marks the 59th traffic -related death in the responsibility of Metro in 2025.

Contact Bryan Horwath at bhorwath@reviewjournal.com. Follow @bryanhorwath on X.