THANKFUL AND IT'S NOW TIME TO DO GOOD IN HONOR OF MARK AND JACOB. I THINK I'VE SAID THIS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIAL. THIS TRIAL, EVERY DAY IN COURT FELT LIKE I'M ATTENDING THE FUNERAL OF THE BOYS AGAIN, DAY AFTER DAY. THAT'S HOW IT FELT IN SEEING THE DEFENDANT AND SEEING THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS, IT WAS JUST THAT BAD. >> CAN YOU TALK TO US ABOUT MARK AND JACOB? >> WELL, THIS WILL BE DIFFICULT. THEY WERE LOVELY CHILDREN. THEY LOVED AND THEY WERE RAISED IN THE CHURCH. THEY WERE HARD-WORKING. THEY WERE HONEST IN THE CARED ABOUT THE TRUTH AND THEY WERE SPOKEN FOR BY A PROSECUTION THAT IS HARD-WORKING, HONEST AND CARES ABOUT THE TRUTH. WE CANNOT BE MORE THANKFUL AND WE FEEL BLESSED. [INAUDIBLE] >> IT FELT LIKE ALL THE STRESS OF THE YEARS AND THE HARD WORK AND THE HOPE HAS PAID OFF. SOMEONE IS NOW HELD ACCOUNTABLE. MARK AND JACOB DID NOT DIE. MARK AND JACOB WERE MURDERED. THAT'S WHAT I WILL BE THINKING AS I GO TO BED. [INAUDIBLE] I WILL LEAVE THAT UP TO THE JUDGE. [INAUDIBLE] >> OBVIOUSLY IT'S HEARTBREAKING. NO ONE WISHES THAT ON ANYONE. I PROMISE I DO NOT HAVE ANY HATE FOR HER. MY HEART BROKE FOR HER CHILDREN. I SAW WHEN HER SON WAS THERE I SAW MARK WHO WOULD BE 15 NOW. I AM A MOTHER SO IT WASN'T EASY BUT IT WILL BRING ME CLOSURE. >> YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN VERY QUIET THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING. >> FINALLY WE CAN MOVE ON. WE HAVE BEEN WAITING. OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR MS. GROSSMAN TO -- SHE CHOSE TO FIGHT TO THE END AND IT WAS HEARTBREAKING TO SEE THE LIES AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND I'M AMAZED THAT THEY COULDN'T TRICK OUR SYSTEM OR THE JURORS AND I APPRECIATE THEM. WE HAD A SMART DEDICATED JURY AND PROSECUTORS AS WELL. VERY HONEST AND VERY HARD-WORKING AND IT WAS A FIGHT BETWEEN THE TRUTH AND -- AND THE TRUTH ONE I THINK IT'S THE TRUTH HERE BUT IT ALLOWS ME TO MOVE ON AND HE'LL -- AND TO HEAL AND NOT ALLOW HATRED OR LOSS OF PEACE TO EFFECT HOW I FEEL. I HOPE EVERYONE HEALS AND EVERYONE LEARNS FROM THIS EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING EVERYONE FROM BOTH SIDES AND FROM THE COMMUNITY. I HOPE THIS SAVES LIVES IN THE FUTURE. WE ARE JOINING A PRESS CONFERENCE REGARDING THE REBECCA GROSSMAN TRIAL >> EXECUTING, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE, YOU KNOW, BIG FIRMS AND THEY -- THEY -- IT WAS AMAZING HOW -- HOW THEY -- I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY IT BUT THEY JUST LIED, LIED AND -- AND I -- I WAS SHOCKED BY THE LIES BUT I WAS WORRIED THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN FALL FOR THOSE LIES. SO THEY DIDN'T. THEY ARE SMART AND FOCUSED ON THE EVIDENCE. AND SIX WEEKS AND VERY HARD WORK AND A LOT OF PATIENTS, I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM. GOD BLESS THEM ALL. >> CULVERT CITY, RESURRECTION CHURCH. WE ARE SUPER THANKFUL AND WE ARE TAKING THEM ALL WITH US UNTIL YOUR HEARING JOURNEY AND WE WILL DO AS MUCH GOOD AS WE CAN TO THE COMMUNITY AND HELP AS MANY CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE WHO ARE IN NEED IN THE NAME OF MARK AND JACOB. >> CAN YOU TALK ABOUT -- >> IT'S BEEN -- IT'S BEEN VERY HARD ON ZACHARY. HE HAS SEEN IT HAPPENED. HE ONLY KNEW HIS TWO BROTHERS. HE WAS 5 YEAR'S OLD AT THE TIME. SO I DON'T THINK HIS FULLY DIGESTED IT. HE'S STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY SOMETHING LIKE THAT WOULD HAPPEN. HE HAS VERY STRONG MEMORIES OF IT, SO WE'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, DEALING WITH A LOT OF TRAUMA. MY DAUGHTER WAS ONE AT THE TIME. SHE TALKS ABOUT HER BROTHERS IN HEAVEN THAN A DIFFERENT WAY THAT ZACHARY SAYS. THANK YOU, EVERYONE. >> KARIM, RIGHT? >> AND THAT WAS NANCY AND KARIM, PARENTS OF TWO BOYS THAT WERE KILLED JUST OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE SPEAKING AFTER GUILTY VERDICT OF REBECCA GROSSMAN. SHE WAS FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS OF MURDER, VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER AND HIT AND RUN. PAT: WE ARE GOING TO BE WRAPPING UP ON KCAL NEWS BUT WE ARE NOW LIVE ON CBS CHANNEL 2 AND IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT THIS HAPPENED FOUR YEARS AGO. THIS HAPPENED IN 2020. >> THAT'S RIGHT, THE GUILTY VERDICT COMING DOWN JUST ABOUT HALF HOUR AGO. >> KCAL NEWS REPORTER JASMINE VIEL IS LIVE AT THE VAN UYS COURTHOUSE. JESS, YOU WERE INSIDE THE COURTROOM WHEN THE VERDICT WAS READ. >> BUT INSIDE LESS THAN 20 MINUTES AGO IT IS A VERDICT WAS HANDED DOWN GUILTY ON ALL FIVE COUNTS YOU HEARD GASPS, SOBS FROM BOTH FAMILIES, THE CHILDREN OF REBECCA GROSSMAN WHALING INTO THEIR FATHER'S ARM. HER MOTHER REBECCA GROSSMAN WAS HANDCUFFED AND LED AWAY FROM DEPUTIES. THE CHILDREN JUMPED OUT OF SEATS. DEPUTIES HAD TO STEP IN AND HOLD THEM BACK AS REBECCA AS SHE PASSED THEM SHE SAID, CAN I GIVE THEM A KISS AND, OF COURSE, THAT WAS NOT ALLOWED AND SHE WAS WALKED OUT OF THE COURTROOMLE. THE DAUGHTER TURNED AROUND AT ONE POINT AND LOOKED TOWARD THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF THE ISKANDER FAMILY AND SUPPORTERS SITTING IN THE COURTROOM AND THE DAUGHTER SAID HOW -- HOW WOULD YOU DO THIS AS THEY WERE -- AS -- GROSSMAN IS BEING -- THE FAMILY, THE GROSSMAN FAMILY ALSO JUST WALKED OUT OF THE COURTROOM. I'M GOING TO STEP OUT OF THE WAY HERE. THE KIDS, THE CHILDREN HUGGING THEIR DAD, SON AND DAUGHTER. THAT WAS THE POSITION THEY ALSO HAD IN THE COURTROOM AS THAT VERDICT WAS READ. SO, OF COURSE, MEDIA FOLLOWING THEM AS AGAIN I SAID REBECCA WAS HANDCUFFED AND LED AWAY AND GUILTY ON ALL ACCOUNTS EVEN WITH THE ALLEGATIONS LIKE FLEEING SCENE OF A CRIME. GUILTY ON TWO COUNTS OF MURDER, WE HAVE THE LIST OF THE CHARGES. I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN PULL THAT UP. GUILTY OF TWO COUNTS OF MURDER, TWO COUNTS OF VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER AND ONE COUNT HIT AND RUN RESULTING IN DEATH. THE ISKANDER FAMILY VERY EMOTIONAL AS NANCY TOLD US DURING NEWS CONFERENCE THAT THIS TRIAL EVERY DAY IT FELT LIKE THE FUNERAL OF HER TWO BOYS AND MARK AND JACOB SHE SAID DID NOT DIE, THEY WERE MURDERED AND THAT JUST PROVED WHAT HAPPENED HERE TODAY SHE SAID AND SHE THANKED THE JURY. SHE SAYS IT'S BEEN HARD ON SURVIVING BROTHER ZACH AS HE'S BEEN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY. AGAIN, THIS WAS MORE THAN 3 YEARS AGO BUT WHAT THEY'VE LAD TO LIVE WITH DAY IN AND DAY OUT. HER HUSBAND KARIM SAYS IT WAS TOUGH. THE LIES FROM THE DEFENSE. NOW LET ME TELL YOU WHAT ELSE WAS HAPPENING INSIDE THE COURTROOM. IT WAS HIGHLY GUARDED. 7 SHERIFFS DEPUTIES GUARDING THE DOOR, AT ONE POINT THEY COULD NOT LET ANYONE ELSE INSIDE OF THE COURTROOM BECAUSE IT WAS SO PACKED WITH NOT ONLY MEDIA BUT AGAIN WITH BOTH OF THOSE FAMILIES BEING INSIDE. THIS WAS SIX WEEKS, SIX-WEEK LONG TRIAL, TWO DAYS OF DELIBERATIONS, WE ALSO WHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING WAS -- WAS THE FACT THAT THE JURORS WANTED TO COME BACK INTO THE COURTROOM TO HAVE SOME TESTIMONY REREAD TO THEM FROM TWO EYEWITNESSES AND ALSO FROM MOM, NANCY BEFORE THEY DECIDED ON A VERDICT, SO WE REREAD SOME OF THAT TESTIMONY AND EVEN THAT WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO HEAR AS THEY BURST OUT CRYING AS THE TESTIMONY WAS REREAD TO THOSE JURORS. WE ALSO SAW REBECCA GROSSMAN SURROUNDED BY AS YOU JUST SAW ALL DAY SURROUNDED BY HER DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND. THE DEFENSE HAD ARGUED AT THE END OF ALL THIS WHEN THE VERDICT WAS READ AND REBECCA HAD BEEN LET AWAY IN HANDCUFFS, THE DEFENSE HAD ARGUED FOR GROSSMAN TO REMAIN ON BAIL TO PREPARE FOR THAT SENTENCING BUT THE JUDGE SAID NO, SHE'S BEEN CONVICTED OF SOME VERY SERIOUS CRIMES FOR MURDERING CHILDREN AND HE CAN NO LONGER DELAY JUSTICE IN THIS CASE SO SENTENCING WILL TAKE PLACE IN APRIL AND NANCY JUST SAID DURING NEWS CONFERENCE AS WE BRING HER BACK OUT HERE LIVE, NANCY JUST SAID SHE'S GOING THE LEAVE THE DECISION ON THAT SENTENCING UP TO THE JUDGE. SHE DID NOT SPEAK ABOUT THAT BUT WE DO KNOW AND SHE WAS CONVICTED ON ALL ACCOUNTS THAT IT WOULD BE 34 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON, SO THAT IS THE LATEST HERE IN VAN UYS INSIDE OF THE COURTROOM. AGAIN THE ISKANDER JUST LEFT ALONG WITH THE GROSSMAN FAMILY. I WILL SEND IT BACK TO YOU. PAT: JASS, I KNOW IT'S EARLY TO TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF A CIVIL TRIAL. THEY LOST THIS PARTICULAR -- THE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS, THAT CAN CERTAINLY COME AND I'M SURE THERE PROBABLY WAS NO TALK OF THAT I WOULD IMAGINE AND I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE OTHER PERSON THAT THE DEFENSE TRIED TO BRING INTO THIS AND THAT WAS THE FORMER DODGER PITCHER. IS THERE ANYTHING OR ANY CHATTER THAT YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THEM POSSIBLY GOING AFTER HIM AGAIN OR NOT? >> WELL, NOT TODAY BUT THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION, PAT. I REACHED OUT TO HIS ATTORNEY MARK WORKSMAN AND HE JUST SENT ME AN E-MAIL AND SAID IT WAS BRIEF. I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS CASE. I'M ONLY E-MAILING AS A COURTESY AND THAT WAS FROM SCOTT ERICSSON'S ATTORNEY, HER THEN BOYFRIED AT THE TIME AND THAT WAS THE DEFENSE'S CASE RIGHT THERE. THEY WERE PLACING THE BLAME ON HIM IN THE BLACK SUV SAYING THAT HE HIT THOSE CHILDREN FIRST AND THEN THEY WERE THROWN TO REBECCA GROSSMAN'S WHITE SUV. THAT WAS THE ARGUMENT THE ENTIRE TIME. HIS NAME YOU'RE RIGHT WAS AT THE ARE CENTER OF THIS CASE. SO NO, WE HAVE NOT HEARD WHAT'S NEXT AND -- AND I'VE HEARD FROM OTHER SOURCES FROM SOME EXPERTS WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE TRIAL THAT HE MAY BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY AND MAYBE THE DEFENSE KEPT HIM AWAY ON PURPOSE. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. I ALSO HEARD THAT THE ISKANDER MAYBE LOOKING AT OTHER LAWSUITS OBVIOUSLY AS YOU SAID CIVIL LAWSUITS WHETHER IT HAS TO DO WHERE THIS HAPPENED, WHERE THE HIT -- SORRY, WHERE THE TWO BROTHERS WERE HIT AND KILLED AN MAYBE LOOKING AT THE CITY THERE, GOING AFTER A LAWSUIT THERE. WE WILL SEE AND IT'S JUST SO FRESH RIGHT NOW WITH THIS VERDICT, GUILTY ON ALL
