This guy.
His name is James Khuri, he owns “several real estate firms and an e-commerce business” (according to Yahoo News here), and he’s apparently too busy to keep an eye on his teenager after handing him the keys to a racecar — until his kid kills somebody.
The victim was Monique Munoz, 32 (photo below), who was driving home from work when killed by Brendan Khuri, 17, who allegedly was street-racing (his attorney, of course, denies that). He pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter in juvenile court on Friday, and is on home detention pending sentencing.
Her relatives wanted him tried in adult court and sent to prison. He wasn’t, and won’t be.
It’s worse than that. Although he was arrested, “no charges were filed initially. Then the L.A. District Attorney’s Office announced that it had filed charges but wouldn’t reveal what those charges are – or if he was being charged as a juvenile or adult – until the arraignment Friday,” more than a year after the crash, the U.K.-based Daily Mail reported on Saturday, April 24, 2021 (read their story here and more details from an L.A. TV station story here).
The Daily Mail also noted, “Under a picture of a Lamborghini race car on an LA street posted in December on Instagram, the teen’s father James Khuri wrote ‘Fun Friday afternoon racing another Lamborghini SVJ on Sunset. Of course going speed limit.'” Like father, like son.
This stinks to high heaven. If the Munoz family can’t get justice from prosecutors, they should at least relieve dad of his millions, or a substantial number of them; and if I were on the jury, I’d give them everything he owns, because it seems pretty obvious the principle culpability is his.
P.S., he’s a crummy parent, too.
The story is in LA. A location where it is not unusual for 17 year olds to drive or have access to high end vehicles. Expensive race car style cars are common street cars. We even have street racing here in Bellingham ad it has gotten people killed. No Lamborghini but still young men with fast cars with more testosterones than brains. As the Greeks point out a lot of hubris and tragedy ensues.
Don’t overlook that a parent handed him the keys. Where was the parental supervision? Parental responsibility? In this case, absent. This is dad’s fault as much as the kid’s fault.