Star’s chilling threat to lover’s daughter after street race deaths

Shocking details have emerged about the street race deaths of two children with a socialite’s daughter coming forward with a new claim.

Former baseball star Scott Erickson allegedly threatened the daughter of his LA socialite lover to keep quiet when the teen spotted him hiding in a bush near the scene where two young brothers were fatally struck in a hit-and-run.

Alexis Grossman, 19, testified that she spotted the former MLB pitcher lurking in the shadows as police questioned her mother Rebecca Grossman after the former-lovers’ street race turned tragic, resulting in the deaths of eight-year-old Jacob Iskander and his brother, Mark Iskander, 11 on September 29, 2020.

She then recalled Erickson frantically confronting her after he barged into the family home a little while after the crash, The New York Post reports.

“Why did your mom stop? Why did your mom stop?” Grossman claimed during a testimony on Saturday, according to the LA Times. “He seemed very angry. He was frantic. I could smell alcohol on him. He was freaking out. I was scared.”

During his panic-stricken rage, Erickson allegedly told the teen, “Don’t tell anyone you saw me, or I will ruin you and your family.”

Scott Erickson and the white Mercedes. Credit: Fernando Medina/Getty Images.

Grossman explained to the jury that she was out to meet a pizza delivery when she spotted her mother’s white Mercedes and police cars and bolted to her mother’s side.

“I ran out toward her. I was screaming, ‘Mommy, mommy,” Grossman added but was stopped from getting to the 60-year-old by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy.

As she turned around to leave, Grossman says she saw Erickson pop up from his hiding spot in some bushes behind a tree before the two looked at each other, the outlet reported.

“He was poking his head out and we made eye contact,” Grossman said.

Rebecca Grossman faces two counts of second-degree murder for their deaths and could receive up to 34 years in prison for her alleged role in the deadly incident in Westlake Village.

Her lawyers were using Alexis Grossman’s testimony to strengthen their defence claiming Erickson’s black Mercedes SUV was the car that initially struck the boys and not Grossman’s white Mercedes.

Rebecca Grossman is facing charges in the deaths of eight-year-old Jacob Iskander and his brother, Mark Iskander.

The pair is accused of drinking at a nearby restaurant before Grossman tailed Erickson as they flew past the crosswalk on Triunfo Canyon Road at Saddle Mountain Drive, where Nancy Iskander was crossing with her three sons.

The socialite’s breathalyser test following the crash showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.076 per cent, according to the newspaper.

She was also found to have Valium in her blood.

The younger Grossman was questioned by Los Angeles County Deputy Distric Attorney Ryan Gould why she never told the deputy at the scene that she saw Erickson hiding.

“I wish I had because, if I had, we wouldn’t be here right now,” she replied.

Alexis Grossman only revealed the sighting when she told her then-separated parents in 2021, as her mother’s attorneys advised, at the time, to not tell anyone.

Later that year, Grossman was questioned if Erickson visited the family’s Westlake home that night and she recalled her saying no.

“I wasn’t trying to protect anyone,” Grossman said Friday. “He was a big guy, a baseball player … I was scared.”

— This story originally appeared on nypost.com and has been republished with permission

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