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Karim Iskander, right, and wife Nancy Iskander, center, arrive for Rebecca Grossman’s sentencing on Monday in Van Nuys. “My pain is nothing compared to your pain — not even a fraction.” On Monday, Iskander spoke ahead of Grossman’s sentencing of the evening she rushed to the hospital after the crash. “She looked me in the eye,” Iskander said, her voice …

A judge on Monday sentenced Rebecca Grossman to 15 years to life in prison for the murders of two brothers she struck while speeding through a Westlake Village crosswalk four years ago, saying her actions were “reckless and unquestionably negligent.” After hearing Nancy Iskander, the mother of 11-year-old Mark Iskander and 8-year-old Jacob Iskander, angrily ask for the sentence to …

Nancy Iskander and her husband, Karim, leave the Van Nuys courthouse in April 2022 during a preliminary hearing in the murder trial of Rebecca Grossman. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has taken the highly unusual step of removing the prosecutors who convicted Rebecca Grossman of double murder, outraging the parents of the two young boys she killed in …

Nancy and Karim Iskander talk with media outside Van Nuys courtroom after a verdict on Friday. Three years after Grossman sped through a Westlake Village crosswalk in her Mercedes-Benz, hitting Iskander’s sons as she watched in horror, she had finally found some level of closure. For the record: An earlier version of this story said that Nancy Iskander went to …

It was a September evening in 2020 when Nancy Iskander and her three sons approached a marked crosswalk in their upscale suburban L.A. neighborhood. “I know she killed them,” Iskander testified earlier this month, saying she has no doubt it was the white SUV she now knows was driven by Grossman that fatally struck her two sons. His lawyer, Mark …

Nancy Iskander and her husband, Karim, leave Van Nuys Courthouse in April 2022 during a preliminary hearing in the murder trial of Rebecca Grossman, who is charged in the deaths of the Iskanders’ sons Mark, 11, and Jacob, 8. Tony Buzbee, Grossman’s lead attorney, told jurors during his opening statements Friday that “she did not do anything, but someone else …

Rebecca Grossman is on trial for murder in connection with a Westlake Village crash that left two young brothers dead. Los Angeles County prosecutors say Grossman was behind the wheel of a white Mercedes SUV that fatally struck brothers Mark and Jacob Iskander in Westlake Village in September 2020. But Tony Buzbee, Grossman’s lead attorney, argued in court this week …

A sign shows an image of Mark Iskander, 11, left, and his brother Jacob Iskander, 8, outside a Van Nuys courthouse on Monday, where a preliminary hearing was held for Rebecca Grossman, who is charged with murder and other counts stemming from a crash in Westlake Village in which Grossman’s Mercedes struck the boys in a crosswalk and killed them. …

Nancy Iskander, second from right, is consoled during a break from a hearing for Rebecca Grossman, who is charged with murder in a crash in Westlake Village that killed Iskander’s sons Mark, 11, and Jacob, 8. In Monday’s hearing, Iskander described Jacob lying near the curb, and down the road, her son Mark with his “arm broken” and “blood coming …