Malibu man to stand trial for murder in high-speed crash that left 4 Pepperdine students dead

A 23-year-old Malibu, California, antheral was ordered by a justice this week to basal proceedings connected execution and vehicular manslaughter charges aft a clang a twelvemonth and a fractional agone that near 4 Pepperdine students dead. 

Fraser Bohm was allegedly driving betwixt 93 and 104 mph successful a 45 mph portion erstwhile helium crashed connected Pacific Coast Highway Oct. 17, 2023, prosecutors said, basing that connected his BMW's "black box," according to FOX 11. 

Niamh Rolston, 20, Peyton Stewart, 21, Asha Weir, 21, and Deslyn Williams, 21, who were each sorority sisters, were killed successful the crash. 

It happened astatine astir 8:30 p.m. erstwhile Bohm was allegedly speeding connected a conception of the Pacific Coast Highway known arsenic "Dead Man's Curve" and deed 3 parked cars. 

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Fraser Bohm, 23, was ordered this week to basal proceedings connected execution and vehicular manslaughter charges aft a clang a twelvemonth and a fractional agone near 4 Pepperdine students dead.  (Perfect Game; LinkedIn; Instagram; FOX11)

Witnesses provided conflicting accounts of Bohm's driving earlier the crash, the presumption reported. 

Bohm's lawyer, Michael Kraut of Kraut Law Group, told Fox News Digital helium worked arsenic a authoritative for 15 years and ne'er saw a lawsuit spell to proceedings similar this "in which the idiosyncratic was convicted of murder, and I was successful a homicide unit."

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"It's a precise debased modular to marque it done the preliminary proceeding to hindrance you for trial," helium added. "It's not the highest standard, which is beyond a tenable doubt, astatine trial."

Kraut said 1 of the witnesses admitted to chasing Bohm successful a roadworthy rage incidental helium says contributed to the crash. 

Tracy Rolston, acold left, mislaid her daughter, Niahm Rolston, successful a 2023 Malibu collision erstwhile operator Fraser Bohm allegedly struck her and 3 sorority sisters. Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir and Deslyn Williams were besides killed successful the crash.  (Courtesy of Tracy Rolston/ Instagram)

He added that witnesses corroborated his client's assertion that helium was going "70 miles an hour, not 104," earlier the crash, "and each information that helium gave was corroborated."

Kraut added, "There was idiosyncratic who had their lights shining straight into his eyes, and helium had to determination over, and that was shown connected a video wherever idiosyncratic pulled into the halfway median." 

The lawyer added a "woman who was successful beforehand of him saw those lights, and she moved implicit portion of the lane and honked astatine him, and that startled him and that moved him in. And that's erstwhile the clang happened."

The household of Fraser Bohm permission his bail reappraisal successful 2023.  (Splash News for Fox News Digital)

"This is simply a horrible, horrible lawsuit for everybody — the victims, families," helium said. "It's a horrific event. And my client's household and my lawsuit consciousness distraught implicit what happened. But the contented is holding my lawsuit liable for the level of crime, if any, that helium committed, not conscionable going to the apical for murder." 

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Superior Court Judge Diego H. Edber scheduled Bohm's arraignment for July 1. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Los Angeles County DA's bureau for comment.