Mother of Two Boys Killed in Crosswalk Testifies in Civil Trial Play

The woman who lost two little boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk took the witness stand yesterday in a Van Nuys courtroom.

Nancy Iskander, her husband and her surviving children are suing Rebecca Grossman and Scott Erickson. They are the one-time lovers who were racing their high-performance sports cars on Triunfo Canyon Road in 2020. They plowed into three children and their mother in a Westlake Village crosswalk.

Nancy Iskander grabbed one son and pulled him back, but she lost Mark and Jacob.

Her life, she tells the jury, has ended. Her professional career has ended.

"No, I can't. I can't forget. No parent wants to forget their kids. Karim [her husband] finds comfort when I find him when he leaves and he goes to sleep in Jacob's bed and sleep on Jacob's pillow."

Attorney Brad Panash: "You mentioned earlier that you liked being a professional working mother. Are you able to do that now?"

Nancy Iskander: "No, I don't enjoy it anymore because I think of the minutes we are losing by not being together. You never know. Something might happen at any minute, any given time. So it's not the same anymore."

Iskander said her boys' bedrooms are untouched six years after their deaths.

"The worst thing is the memories — going back — because I am thinking about the same things over and over again, because that's all I have."

Nancy Iskander and her husband are suing Rebecca Grossman, her husband, and her former lover Scott Erickson. They have not yet told the public or the jury what they are seeking, but their lawyer says it may be in the tens of millions of dollars.

Rebecca Grossman's husband, a prominent San Fernando Valley burn surgeon, has been caught trying to hide the family's financial assets.