By Patrick Reilly | New York Post
The driver who allegedly mowed down four Pepperdine University seniors in Malibu last week has been charged with murder, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced.
Fraser Bohm, 22, was taken into custody Tuesday and is facing four counts of murder in the deaths of Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir and Deslyn Williams.
The four young women were killed Oct. 17 when Bohm lost control of his BMW while speeding on a notoriously dangerous stretch of the iconic Pacific Coast Highway.
He smashed into several parked cars before colliding with the foursome, who were walking nearby, police said after the crash.
Rolston, Stewart, Weir and Williams — all seniors from the same sorority — were declared dead at the scene.
Two other victims were hospitalized.
Bohm, who stepped out of the vehicle unharmed, was tackled by witnesses.
He was originally arrested after the crash and charged with gross vehicular manslaughter.
However, he was released “to allow detectives time to gather the evidence needed to secure the strongest criminal filing and conviction,” the sheriff’s department explained Tuesday.
The evidence included a toxicology report, speed analysis, and execution of search warrants, police said.
Law enforcement presented the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Monday and charges were subsequently filed.
Bohm is being held on $8 million bail.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 25.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and no further information is available.
“The Sheriff’s Department is relentlessly working to ensure we get justice for the victims’ families,” the department said in a press release.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The tragic deaths, which occurred just four miles from Pepperdine, devastated the close-knit community.
University officials announced that Rolston, Stewart, Weir and Williams would receive their college degrees posthumously.
They were set to graduate in the spring.
