Rebecca Grossman sentenced to prison for the deaths of her younger brothers

The co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation received a much longer sentence than the one she ultimately received on Monday.

June 10, 2024 at 1:40 p.m. PDT | Update June 10, 2024 at 1:43 p.m. PDT

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Rebecca Grossman was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison for the high-speed hit-and-run deaths of two little boys in Westlake Village in 2020.

The co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation was sentenced to 34 years in prison in the high-profile case that pitted community members against each other and involved defense allegations that a former Dodgers player may have been the real killer.

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Grossman, 60, was convicted of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run resulting in death for striking and killing Mark Iskander, 11, and his brother Jacob, 8 years old, as they crossed the border. street at a pedestrian crossing with their family.

The jury of nine men and three women returned its verdict on the second day of deliberations, mulling over the evidence for about nine hours in total before rejecting the defense's claim that Grossman's boyfriend, former Dodger Scott Erickson, was the one who killed the boys.

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City News Service and Patch staffer Chris Lindahl contributed to this report.