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Update On Charles "Mask" Lewis Crash And Charges Filed Against Jeffrey Kirby

 

 

The man arrested on Wednesday in connection with the death of “Tapout” founder Charles “Mask” Lewis Jr., has been formally charged with vehicular manslaughter after a brutal crash left the clothing company entrepreneur’s Ferrari ripped in half by a cement pole in Newport Beach, Calif.

Jeffrey D. Kirby, 51, of Costa Mesa, Calif., has been charged with “one felony count of vehicular manslaughter by unlawful act with gross negligence while intoxicated, one felony count of driving under the influence causing bodily injury, and sentencing enhancements for fleeing the scene of a vehicular manslaughter and causing great bodily injury to multiple victims,” according to a press release from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Kirby, who has a prior 2002 conviction for driving under the influence, faces a maximum sentence of 19 years and eight months if convicted.

Kirby is being held on $2 million bail and will be arraigned on Friday afternoon at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach, Calif.

It is of little solace, but it appears that the two vehicles were not street racing as originally rumored.

HT: Sherdog 

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I don’t get it….you said they weren’t street racing? Did the guy just ram into him / run him off the road or what?

by joseph. on Mar 13, 2009 5:51 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Yea, the guy was drinking and driving(blew a .13 two hours after the fact)…hit Mask’s car which caused him to lose control….thus hittng the concrete lightpole.

http://www.mmaforreal.com

by Kelvin Hunt on Mar 13, 2009 8:56 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

that’s fucked, man. people should know by now that cars aren’t toys.

by joseph. on Mar 14, 2009 11:32 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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