Police claim that on June 12 when Jennifer Blesdoe Bean, 21, was leaving a bonfire at Dockweiler Beach in Playa Del Ray, Neal Cooper, 27, slammed into her automobile at 100 mph, killing her instantly.
Following the incident, Cooper was brought to the hospital but subsequently discharged.
He posted a smaller bail and is now free.
However, according to the police, this is not the first time he has been freed on bond thanks to District Attorney George Gascon’s lax policies.
In reality, Cooper had already been detained on suspicion of DUI in February in Manhattan Beach, also in Los Angeles County, but as no one was wounded in the incident, he was let go on his own recognizance and permitted to return to the streets, according to CBS News.
In a press conference on Monday, LAPD Detective James Dickson said along with Blesdoe Bean’s family, “One of the things that the family is concerned about, and we’re not pleased either, is that despite his bond amount being set at a very high level, there was a bail reduction, and he was able to bail out.”
They are now calling for explanations and responsibility in the deadly collision, which her mother, Jedan Blesdoe, said broke “every bone in my lovely baby’s body.”
According to KTLA, she also said that she is “angry” about the issue.
Jennifer Blesdoe Bean, 21, was killed in a crash near Dockweiler Beach in Playa Del Ray on June 12, when she was leaving a bonfire
Neal Cooper, a 27-year-old motorist, was moving at 100 mph just before to the crash, according to police.
Only after looking through public records and learning that Cooper had another court date for the February collision were they able to learn about his prior criminal history.
“Why did my family have to go up his other court date on public records, travel to that court date, and inform them that he murdered my sister?” During the press conference, Tiffany Lewis questioned.
She said that he was only “remanded into custody” after that had taken place.
She was 21 years old. She had nightmares. Blesdoe Bean was likewise family-oriented, according to Lewis. She enjoyed life, and her passing might have been avoided.
According to authorities, Cooper was traveling at a speed of over 100 mph in the seconds before the collision, the Los Angeles Police Department said during a press conference on Monday.
They claimed that in order to retrieve the event recorder from Cooper’s vehicle, which they were able to do, they required a search warrant since there were no witnesses to the collision.
He was “caught close to 100 miles per hour” when the crash was rebuilt by the officers, according to Dickson.
He might now be charged with vehicular murder, and his next court date is September 26.
In a news conference on Monday, Blesdoe Bean’s family slammed District Attorney George Gascon for allowing Cooper back on the streets following a February arrest for driving under the influence
Tiffany Lewis, her sister, said that the family first learned about Cooper’s prior arrest via a check of public records.
However, Cooper is hardly the first criminal to be freed from prison just to return to the streets and perpetrate further crimes.
Two El Monte police officers, Michael Domingo Paredes, 42, and Joseph Anthony Santana, 31, were assassinated in June by a career criminal who was on probation for a crime of weapon possession for which he had only spent 20 days in prison.
On June 14, gang member Justin William Flores, 35, shot and killed the cops while they were responding to a report of a stabbing at a hotel in El Monte. Flores subsequently shot and killed himself.
At the time of the incident, Flores had recently completed 20 days in prison for illegally having a firearm and was on probation for a previous weapons offense.
In accordance with a favorable plea agreement made feasible by Gascon’s liberal bail conditions, Flores received the sentence in 2021.
Justin William Flores, 35, was on probation for a prior gun charge when he fatally shot two officers in June
Prosecutors also dropped narcotics charges against Flores, who was suspected of having methamphetamine and ammo for the illegal pistol, as part of the plea agreement.
According to law enforcement officials, since he was already on parole after pleading guilty to being a criminal in possession of a handgun, he should have received a term of at least three years.
Since then, it has come to light that Flores was not only barred from possessing a firearm since 2011, but also had a significant criminal history dating back more than ten years.
In addition, Flores’ parole officer had asked him to appear in court the day before the deadly shooting because of a probation violation stemming from his girlfriend’s accusation that he had abused her the week before.
When Paredes and Santana came to a complaint of a stabbing, Flores’ wife informed them that her husband had previously assaulted her and had a pistol at a hotel.
Nevertheless, Flores was not detained.
Gascon still justified Flores’ moderate punishment after the fact.
He said that Flores had no “recorded history of violence” and that the sentence was appropriate under the circumstances.
During a news conference, Gascon said, “We have an imperfect system.”
Not only in Los Angeles, It’s all over. I am aware that hearing this is upsetting and that it may not enable some people’s wounds to heal.
“We do not serve our community when we attempt to pretend that we can foresee when these incidents will occur 100 percent of the time.”
George Gascon, the district attorney for Los Angeles, has introduced weak bail policies, which opponents claim allow criminals to reenter society. In a press conference earlier this month, he is shown.
Other convicts have commended Gascon for his lenient punishment at this time.
Luis Angel Hernandez was heard applauding Gascon for eliminating sentencing enhancements that might lengthen a criminal’s sentence in a leaked phone conversation from jail that FOX News received exclusively.
“I’m going to call that n***** by name.” He exclaimed over the phone, “That’s a champ right there.”
Hernandez was heard yelling “F****** Gascon” in the audio clip, which was used in a Tucker Carlson documentary on the rise in violence in the City of Angels. “Bro, there is the n***** right there.” Brother, he’s bringing about historic changes for all of us.
Hernandez is now in prison for fatally shooting a marijuana delivery worker in the course of an armed robbery in 2018.
Residents of Los Angeles are angry with the woke Since then, district attorney’s policies have attempted to recall Gascon; however, when organizers determined that 200,000 signatures were invalid, their attempts were unsuccessful.
To set a date for the election, the recall’s organizers had to amass roughly 570,000 valid petition signatures.
However, after excluding over 200,000 submitted signatures, county authorities discovered that just roughly 520,000 of the 710,000 collected were legitimate, well below the required number.