LOS ANGELES – Former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson has been charged with reckless driving in connection with a hit-and-run in Southern California that killed two boys last year.
The Los Angeles district attorney’s office said Erickson, 52, was charged with one felony for reckless driving on Wednesday.
Investigators told KABC-TV that he was racing with Rebecca Grossman on September 29, just before she hit and killed 11-year-old Mark Iskander and his 8-year-old brother Jacob as they crossed the street in Westlake Village, a suburb 30 miles away. northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
The boys crossed the street with their parents on a marked pedestrian crossing.
Prosecutors alleged that Grossman continued to drive, eventually stopping about a quarter of a mile from the accident site.
Grossman, 57, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, vehicle manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run driving resulting in death. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 34 years to life in state prison.
Grossman, a philanthropist whose Grossman Burn Foundation supports burn victims, is free from $ 2 million bail.
Erickson is scheduled to be charged on March 16. A call to a number listed for him went unanswered.
Erickson played in the majors from 1991 to 2006, including the first six seasons of his career with the Minnesota Twins and seven seasons with the Baltimore Orioles.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.