Mom faces involuntary manslaughter after son’s e-motorcycle crash kills man

A southern California woman is facing an additional charge of involuntary manslaughter after an 81-year-old man died from his injuries after being struck by the woman’s teen son while he was riding an e-motorcycle, prosecutors said on Friday. On 16 April, Tommi Jo Mejer’s 14-year-old son was riding a Surron e-motorcycle and doing wheelies when he hit Ed Ashman, according to prosecutors. Ashman, a former captain in the US Marine Corps, was walking home from his job as a substitute teacher at a high school in Lake Forest. He was critically injured and died on Thursday, and Mejer, of Aliso Viejo in Orange county, was charged with involuntary manslaughter as a result on top of a previous count of felony child endangerment. “This mother essentially handed her 14-year-old son a deadly weapon, and despite multiple warnings of the dangers, continued to let him illegally ride an e-motorcycle until he finally killed someone,” the Orange county district attorney, Todd Spitzer, said in a statement. Mejer has not yet appeared in court, and there was no public defender listed in records for her. The district attorney’s office gave the Associated Press the name of a private attorney who may be representing Mejer; that person did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Mejer was also charged with felony accessory after the fact and misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and providing false information to an officer. …