Tragedy: Another teenager is killed on the sepulveda boulevard

by Mark McDermott and Liz Mullen

Braun Levi, an 18-year-old tennis star of the Loyola High School, was killed by a suspected drunk driver shortly after midnight on Sunday while crossing the Sepulveda Boulevard.

The accident occurred in the early morning hours of May 4, after Braun and three of his friends had left a nearby meeting and found something eating. At 12:46 p.m., Manhattan Beach's police authority reacted to a report on a collision on the 100th block of South Seepepulveda. The officials arrived to find Levi on the street next to an SUV with a dented hood and broken windshield. He was taken to a local hospital, but died of his injuries shortly afterwards.

The police arrested Jenia Belt, a 33-year-old resident of Los Angeles in Los Angeles. The first press release from MBPD showed that Bell was charged with drunk driving and murder. Until Wednesday, she remains in the MBPD prison, and the agency responsible for law enforcement, the public prosecutor's office of the district in Los Angeles, has not yet submitted any charges.

“The case will continue to be checked,” said a district spokesman on Wednesday.

The La Times reported on Monday that Belt had driven with a suspended driver's license due to an earlier DUI fee.

According to sources at the Mira Costa High School, where the boys who were brown together, they were beach and went at a nearby party in East Manhattan and went to find something. Two of the boys were crossed, and another was in the median and had just turned his friend to hurry when the car hit him. The boy called in 911 and waited with Levi when the police and paramedics arrived. The accident occurred only two blocks, of which 18-year-old MCHS student Ford Savela lost life in January and was hit by a drunk driver. The student, the 911 called, was also a friend of Savela. He and the other boys receive grief advice from MCHS.

Levi and his family came from Pacific palisades, but moved to Hermosa Beach after they lost their home against the forest fires in January. Levi was committed to 50th place as a tennis player at national level and next autumn at the University of Virginia. He and his double partner had won their fourth mission in a row just a few days before the Unciden T. He was a four -year -old university player and team captain.

But beyond his sporting achievements, Levi was known as an exuberant, good -hearted young man who was the life of every room he entered.

“Braun was a bright presence in our Loyola family and brought everyone to everyone he touched, light, joy and inspiration,” wrote Loyola director Jamal Adams in an egg email that was sent to the school community on Sunday.

“Braun Levi is a legend for good reason,” wrote Georgia Bryan, a close friend of the family, on Instagram. “Regardless of whether you were lucky enough to cross him for an hour or a lifetime, he left an impression. It was impossible to be sad or bored when there was brown nearby, and his gift for the cancellation of the people around him was really unique.

His double partner Cooper Schwartz, who had been friends with Levi since the age of 8, also recorded a tribute to Instagram.

“You are forever, to whom we are about who we laugh about when we try to explain everything you have ever done and who we cry if we know that we cannot simply hug you,” he wrote. “18 years or 125, nobody had a better life than she had Braunny. The tears are therefore happy.”

“I will spend the rest of my life with the same heart, the same strength and the same goodness that you have shown in the past 19 years,” wrote his sister Adele on Instagram. “They are deeply loved and words cannot express how much they are missing.”

The city council of Manhattan Beach organized a moment of silence in honor of Levi on Tuesday evening. It was the third loss of life on Sepulveda since December when another pedestrian was killed and killed between the 8th and 9th street. Mayor Amy Hoforth addressed the accident directly and spoke to those in the council chambers.

“W.I have received many, many, many valid concerns about security at the Sepulveda Boulevard … in particular that she extends south of Manhattan Beach Boulevard, which has tragically has several fatal accidents in recent years, and Hofworth since December. We have undertaken to improve security for everyone. ”

Sepulveda is controlled by Caltrans, Hofforth admitted, but said that the city was busy with the agency to make changes.

“You need to know that our traffic engineer is aware of and has been aiming for Caltrans for some time,” she said. “And we are now working with our State Senator, Ben Allen, As of Today, to get Caltrans to Us. Because They Must Understand the Urgency, And They Need To Act with Urgency and Implement Robust Safety Protocols. And We at the City Are AvaLable Resource to Continue to Advocate for Those Measures that Protect Our Residents. -Atellung -Patrouilles on the beach of Manhattan.

Resident Nazly Westernoff asked the advice not to wait for Caltran's measures to take action.

“As a citizen, it feels a bit unfair to wait for Caltrans,” she said. “I spent so much time today to read about Caltrans … It is a handcuff and not one that we should go through. So I ask that I ask you to do better as a city than Caltrans.”

The resident Tanya Monihan said her son was together at Braun Levi the night when the accident took place. It was with Gelsons when the accident occurred, which caused a pedestrian to death in December.

“Three live along the same section of the Sepulveda Boulevard,” she said. “This is not a tragic coincidence. It is a clear signal that the current conditions for this large thoroughfare are uncertain and unacceptable. We cannot afford to wait for another tragedy. Whether it is caltrans or whether it is the responsibility of the city, we simply do not have to work together. I simply do not want this to be blocked, the responsibility of which is responsibility.” I am very ready and I know a lot of people … everyone wants to help and make our city safer.

According to Monihan, possibilities include new speed limits, flashlights, more expensive tickets, more enforcement, DUI and driver training programs as well as the installation of obstacles or even an overpass.

“We don't want Manhattan Beach to be remembered because of avoidable deaths, especially our young,” she said. “We want this community to act safely and compassionate if it is clear that life is endangered.”

Another local mother, who did not identify, told the advice that her own 17-year-old child had a prom on Saturday evening, as well as the Redondo Union and the Chadwick School.

“Our children were out late,” she said. “And we wake up to a nothing [message] That a child had died. There is never a fact that will be okay. What I love about our community, which I have appreciated from the start, is that we are very tight knitted, and so I started getting texts and messages at 6 a.m. I am a doctor in this community and I have very close friends who have all teenagers. We cannot allow that again. Two children in three months are completely unacceptable. Our children are 17 and 18 years old. You need your independence. These are pedestrians. They didn't go wrong. Killed by drunk drivers. So I really have the feeling that it is a bourgeois responsibility that we do something to take drunk drivers off the streets. This is Manhattan Beach. We can do everything we have to do to protect our children. And we have to do more. ” Um