Police said the teen deliberately ran over former Bell Police Chief Andreas Probst last month.
Nick Farese, Deputy Chief at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, described the incident as a"cowardly act" that left him"appalled."
Detectives located the 17-year-old driver later on the same day as the crash but only booked him on charges related to the hit-and-run. They updated the charges to open murder when the video surfaced on social media about two weeks later. Police located the passenger, who recorded the video, on Sept. 19 and booked him into jail with open murder charges.
The two teens are accused of two other crashes, including another hit-and-run involving a 72-year-old bicyclist. In this collision, the passenger was driving at the time, according to the LVMPD. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said he was"confident" that the driver and passenger will be tried as adults. Under Nevada state law, if a 16-year-old or 17-year-old is charged with murder, the case is automatically moved to the adult system,
"I have been intimately involved with this case for the last few weeks. I've been briefed. I have seen the same video that all of you have seen" said Wolfson."Justice will be served in this case."Thanks for reading CBS NEWS.Please enter valid email address to continue
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