Former Purple Scorching Chili Peppers Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer Pleads Not Responsible to Vehicular Manslaughter

Again in July, Josh Klinghoffer, the former guitarist of Purple Scorching Chili Peppers, was sued for wrongful dying and negligence for allegedly working over and killing a pedestrian in Alhambra, California. The lawsuit was filed by the household of Israel Sanchez, the 47-year-old man who was struck by the musician’s automobile within the March 18 incident. Right now, Klinghoffer was arraigned in Alhambra on a misdemeanor cost of vehicular manslaughter with out gross negligence. Via his lawyer, Blair Bernholz Berk, the musician pleaded not responsible, Rolling Stone stories.

In keeping with the lawsuit, Klinghoffer was allegedly on his telephone whereas driving an SUV and made a left flip whereas Sanchez walked throughout the road in a marked crosswalk. The affect brought on blunt-force trauma to the pinnacle, and Sanchez died from his accidents hours later. The grievance additionally states that no arrest was made within the incident.

Klinghoffer’s lawyer within the civil case, Andrew B. Brettler, known as it “a tragic accident” in an announcement to Pitchfork. “After the automobile struck the pedestrian, Josh instantly pulled over, stopped the automobile, known as 911, and waited till police and the ambulance arrived. He’s absolutely cooperating with the site visitors investigation,” stated Brettler.

“Mr. Klinghoffer needs to be arrested and prosecuted for murder. We’ve a video of him on his cellular phone on the time he hit and killed Israel Sanchez, a loving father, in a crosswalk,” the Sanchez household’s lawyer, Nick Rowley, instructed Selection. “Israel Sanchez was on his solution to the grocery retailer to make soup for his household and by no means got here house. He did every thing proper, on the lookout for oncoming site visitors and abiding by pedestrian signage, however tragically Mr. Klinghoffer, in a rush and on his telephone, hit him fatally from behind with a big SUV. The loss and grief that the Sanchez household now faces is immense. We is not going to cease till there’s accountability and justice for Mr. Sanchez and his household.”

Klinghoffer performed guitar with the Purple Scorching Chili Peppers from 2009 to 2019, when he was changed by returning member John Frusciante. Klinghoffer was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame with the band in 2012, making him the youngest inductee ever on the time. Since leaving the band, he has been performing as a touring member of Pearl Jam and Jane’s Dependancy.