Two Virginia teens are charged with causing cyclist's death 'after one of them struck the 59-year-old man during illegal street race'

Two Virginia teenagers have been accused of causing the death of a cyclist who was struck by a car during an illegal street race last week.

Police said Anthony Tempesco, 19, and Hallam Guiler, 18, were arrested on one count each of causing the death of another while engaging in a race. They face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

The incident occurred near the intersection of Indian Lakes Boulevard and Halifax Drive in Virginia Beach at around 8pm last Thursday.

Anthony Tempesco, 19 , and Hallam Guiler, 18 , have been charged with causing the death of Edward Richardson, 59, while engaging in a race in Virginia Beach

Tempesco was driving a 2016 Ford sedan, while Guiler was behind the wheel of a 2009 Audi, reported The Virginian-Pilot.

In the course of the unsanctioned race, police said Tempesco struck 59-year-old Edward Richardson, who was riding his bicycle.

EMS workers were summoned to render aid, but despite their efforts Richardson was pronounced dead.

Both Tempsco and Guiler remained at the scene of the accident.

Guiler is pictured posing with his 2009 Audi, which police say he was driving at the time of the race on Thursday night

The two teens are being held without bond in the city jail.

According to recent Facebook posts, Guiler had graduated from Salem High School this past June. Multiple photos that were shared by his father showed the 18-year-old posing up with his silver Audi.

Comments

Two eBay employees plead guilty to terrorizing blogger couple in a bizarre harassment scheme that included delivering live spiders, funeral wreaths and a bloody pig mask to their home after they criticized the company

Prosecutors revealed an indictment against six former eBay employees, among them high-level executives, for threatening David and Ina Steiner , the founders of ECommerceBytes.com Two former eBay employees have pleaded guilty to participating in a plot to terrorize a publisher and editor of an online newsletter that criticized the company by sending live spiders and other disturbing deliveries to their home. Stephanie Popp, 32, former senior manager of global intelligence, and Veronica Zea, 26, a contractor who worked as an intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and to tamper with witnesses on Thursday. The pair are among six former eBay employees charged in a bizarre harassment campaign targeting Massachusetts couple David and Ina Steiner, the founders of ECommerceBytes.com. Popp and Zea, both from San Jose, California, are scheduled to be sentenced in February. Three others are expected to plead guilty later this month. Investigators said the co

EXCLUSIVE: From a $US13million mansion to a caravan: How the Australian wife of Il Divo singer has been 'forced' to live in a dodgy trailer park after a wildfire burned down their house during a bitter divorce battle

'Forced' into a 'mobile home park': Renee Izambard (nee Murphy) with her estranged husband, the suave Il Divo opera singer Sebastien Izambard An Il Divo opera singer's estranged Australian wife claims she was 'forced' to live in a caravan park after their $US12.95million Malibu mansion burned down in a wildfire days just after she filed for divorce. Details of one-time Sydney Sony Music executive Renee Izambard's new life after her messy split with French tenor Sebastien Izambard were laid bare in a lawsuit filed with a Californian court this week. Ms Izambard (nee Murphy) is suing insurer State Farm, her estranged husband, an insurance agent and up to 20 others, over an allegedly 'inadequate' policy which covered the couple's destroyed former Malibu home. Their five bedroom residence - described as a 'no expense spared ... oasis' - and its two guest houses went up in flames on November 8, 2018 during California's devastating Wo

Heartbroken mother warns other parents after her two-year-old daughter swallows remote control battery and dies

A heartbroken mother has issued a warning to other parents after her two-year-old daughter died from swallowing a remote control battery. Harper-Lee Fanthorpe, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, passed away on May 23, hours after swallowing the battery when the acid inside burnt through her food pipe. Mother Stacey Nicklin said she did not realise her daughter had swallowed the battery until she found the remote control with a missing button battery in her bedroom. Harper-Lee Fanthorpe, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, passed away on May 23, hours after swallowing the battery when the acid inside burnt through her food pip Mother Stacey Nicklin said she did not realise her daughter had swallowed the battery until she found the remote control with a missing button battery in her bedroom The two-year-old was being watched over by her older sister, Jamie-Leigh Nicklin-Hulme She recalled her daughter's final words to her were: 'Mummy, I need you'. The two-year-old was b

Newsif Blog

Search This Blog