Jzamir Key, left, and Jesus Ayala appear in court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Ayala and Keys are accused of killing a former California police chief by deliberately crashing into him as he rode his bicycle while recording it on video. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jesus Ayala, left, and Jzamir Keys appear in court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Ayala and Keys are accused of killing a former California police chief by deliberately crashing into him as he rode his bicycle while recording it on video. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jesus Ayala talks to his attorney, Chief Deputy Public Defender David Westbrook, in court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Ayala and Jzamir Keys are accused of killing a former California police chief by deliberately crashing into him as he rode his bicycle while recording it on video. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jzamir Keys, who with Jesus Ayala is accused of killing a former California police chief by deliberately crashing into him as he rode his bicycle while recording it on video, appears in court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jesus Ayala, left, who with Jzamir Keys is accused of killing a former California police chief by deliberately crashing into him as he rode his bicycle while recording it on video, appears in court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jesus Ayala, left, who with Jzamir Keys is accused of killing a former California police chief by deliberately crashing into him as he rode his bicycle while recording it on video, appears in court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Prosecutors have accused Jesus Ayala, 19, of striking Andreas Probst, 66, with a stolen vehicle as Probst rode his bicycle near Centennial Parkway on Aug. 14, 2023. Authorities have said Jzamir Keys, 17, filmed a video of the two teens laughing and planning to hit Probst, who was a retired police chief from Bell, California, police have said.
At a Tuesday hearing, District Judge Jacqueline Bluth set the trial for Nov. 3 and said the date would be firm.
Chief Deputy Public Defender David Westbrook said the trial would likely last about three weeks.
“I’m just excited to get it done,” Probst’s wife, Crystal Probst, said after the hearing.
She said she plans to come to court for every day of the trial and wants the suspects to receive the maximum penalty.
Ayala and Keys were indicted in 2023 on charges of murder, attempted murder, failing to stop at the scene of a crash, battery, residential burglary, grand larceny of a vehicle and possession of a stolen vehicle.
The case was stalled for months after Ayala was found incompetent in October. District Judge Christy Craig found him competent in February.
