A convicted bank robber was officially charged with second degree murder after a DUI collision killed a 12-year-old bicyclist in Costa Mesa, California.
Richard David Lavalle, 59, of Long Beach was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck eastbound on Arlington Drive near the intersection of Junipero Drive just before 6 p.m. on Dec. 6 when he failed to halt for a stop sign, striking the autistic youth as he rode his bicycle in a crosswalk.
