Malibu Man To Stand Trial For Murder In High-speed Crash That Left 4 Pepperdine Students Dead

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

Fraser Bohm was allegedly driving betwixt 93 and 104 mph successful a 45 mph area erstwhile he collapsed 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 nan crash. 

It happened astatine astir 8:30 p.m. erstwhile Bohm was allegedly speeding connected a conception of nan 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 guidelines proceedings connected execution and vehicular manslaughter charges aft a clang a twelvemonth and a half agone near 4 Pepperdine students dead.  (Perfect Game; LinkedIn; Instagram; FOX11)

Witnesses provided conflicting accounts of Bohm's driving earlier nan crash, nan position reported. 

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

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"It's a very debased modular to make it done nan preliminary proceeding to hindrance you for trial," he added. "It's not nan highest standard, which is beyond a reasonable doubt, astatine trial."

Kraut said 1 of nan witnesses admitted to chasing Bohm successful a road rage incident he says contributed to nan crash. 

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

He added that witnesses corroborated his client's declare that he was going "70 miles an hour, not 104," earlier nan crash, "and each truth that he gave was corroborated."

Kraut added, "There was personification who had their lights sparkling straight into his eyes, and he had to move over, and that was shown connected a video wherever personification pulled into nan halfway median." 

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

The family of Fraser Bohm time off his bail reappraisal successful 2023.  (Splash News for Fox News Digital)

"This is simply a horrible, horrible lawsuit for everybody — nan victims, families," he said. "It's a horrific event. And my client's family and my customer consciousness distraught complete what happened. But nan rumor is holding my customer responsible for nan level of crime, if any, that he committed, not conscionable going to nan 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 nan Los Angeles County DA's agency for comment.