A California woman with a record of drunk driving arrests was charged with murder in connection with a crash that killed a high school tennis star.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged 33-year-old Jenia Resha Belt with second-degree murder, according to a press release from the Manhattan Beach Police Department. Belt was taken into custody on Dec. 23, months after she was initially arrested on May 4 at the scene of the crash that killed 18-year-old Braun Levi. She is being held on $2 million bail.
Police said that Belt was intoxicated when she was behind the wheel of the SUV that struck Levi, who was walking with a friend across Sepulveda Boulevard in Manhattan Beach, California, at 12:45 a.m. on May 4. Belt was allegedly driving with a license that was suspended as a result of a previous drunk driving arrest from 2023…