More news is coming out about the Chatsworth street racing crash that killed two people and injured one. Friends of Henry Gevorgyan have indicated that he was not driving the Ford Mustang that lost control and spun into the crowds, but instead was the man on the light in between the Mustang and the Nissan GT-R for that race. New footage of the race appears to back up that claim, and friends of Gevorgyan are now wondering why he is being held on a $2 million bond after turning himself in on Monday.
Gevorgyan’s friend, who would only identify himself as “Danny C.”, said, “”He’s clearly not the driver that was in the video. Photographs, eyewitnesses all prove he was not the driver. We don’t understand how they’re coming up with this just off one mystery witness.” Additionally, Gevorgyan’s attorney, Kate Hardie, is wondering the same thing. Gevorgyan doesn’t have a criminal past, yet even if he was the driver of the car, the judge in the case set the bail at twice the level normally set for murder, something that Hardie has tried unsuccessfully to have reduced.
While nobody seems to contest that Gevorgyan was there, or that it was his Mustang that was involved with the wreck, the big question now is: who was driving the car? Police are still looking for the driver of the GT-R, and if Gevorgyan was the man on the light, now there’s a third individual that police don’t have. While it almost goes without saying that Gevorgyan is going to have the book thrown at him regardless of the situation, does this warrant the murder charges if another driver was wheeling his car?
(Courtesy: KABC-7, Los Angeles Times)
