Last month, Loyola High School in Los Angeles celebrated Braun Levi Senior for moving to the best children’s tennis ranks.
The 18 -year -old won another victory only a few days ago, winning the double mission league championship. In a photo, Beaging’s Levi is next to the Cooper Schwartz teammate, holding four fingers, one for each of its four consecutive league double championships.
Those achievements had to be a bit balm for the Levi family, arriving only a few months after his house in Pacific Palisades burned in the storm of fire in January. The family had moved to the southern bay.
He felt beyond understanding, then, when the director of Loyola, Jamal Adams, sent an email to students and the staff of the Jesuit School Catholic on Sunday to inform them that Levi had been killed in a traffic accident only hours before, a month before the graduation of the high school.
“Braun was a brilliant presence in our Loyola family,” Adams wrote, “bringing light, joy and inspiration to all who played.”
The director invited the Loyola school family to a prayer vigil at the Campus on Sunday night. “All members of our community are welcome to join us while we met in Unity and Memory,” Adams wrote.
Manhattan Beach police said they had arrested a 33 -year -old woman from the angels under suspicion of drunk driving and homicide in relation to the accident, which they occurred after midnight on Sunday morning.
A press release from a letter from the department said only that a call arrived at 12:46 am about a traffic accident that involved a pedestrian in the 100 block of South Sepulveda Boulevard. They found the victim, whom they did not identify, lying on the street.
The police statement said that Jenia Belt in Los Angeles had arrested in the accident. Belt remained in the Manhattan Beach prison on Sunday, said a police surveillance commander.
The friends shower Levi’s social media accounts with tributes to him. Levi had to attend the University of Virginia in autumn.
“Anyone who has known how lucky they are,” said a message. “Never with a stranger, and you left an impact on all those who will live and love you as you every day.”
Another said: “Anyone who had the fate of crossing with him for an hour or life, hey, left an impression. It was impossible to be sad or boring when Borever Braun was close, and his gift to lift those around him.”
The images of Levi’s social networks suggest a prototypical education in southern California. He is spinning in a high lake with his family, arm arm with friends on the beach, posing for a selfie with actor Adam Sandler and rocking a pink suit and a fedora next to a horse racing track.
Only two years ago, another Loyola High student died in the last weeks of his high school career. Ryan Times, a pitcher in the baseball team, was beaten and killed by a train in April or 2023, when the school was on spring holiday.
Brian said, coach of the tennis team of the University team Loyola, named Levi, a three -year -old captain, “probably the most decorated player who has played for school.”
Held also taught Levi in Economics and AP statistics. “We are all stunned, devastated and disconsolate with this tragedy,” Held said by email. “Braun was the most surprising and versatile leader, whom everyone loved, only his opponents. He was that kind of child and special. As one of his teachers, I witnessed how he brought joy to all.”
Levi survives his parents and an old sister.
The Times staff writer Eric Sondheimer contributed to this report.
