All ticket sale proceeds for Monday evening’s Pepperdine men’s basketball season opener will benefit the memorial fund honoring the four students killed in a crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
The fund will support the families and friends of Niamh Rolston, 20, Peyton Stewart, 21, Asha Weir, 21, and Deslyn Williams, 21, with the hope of establishing memorials and scholarships in their honor, the university announced.
The team will honor the memory of the students at the 7 p.m. game against Concordia Irvine at Firestone Fieldhouse.
Tickets can be purchased at tickets.pepperdinewaves.com/#/event-list. People unable to attend the game can make a donation at give.pepperdine.edu/studentmemorial.
The four students were killed on the night of Oct. 17, when a driver who was allegedly speeding west on Pacific Coast Highway slammed into several parked cars on the north shoulder of the roadway. Sheriff’s officials said those parked cars struck the four women, killing them at the scene.
The driver, Fraser Michael Bohm, 22, has been charged with four counts of murder and four counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. His bail was set at $4 million, which he posted on Oct. 27 and was released from custody.
Bohm’s attorney has contended that Bohm was the victim of a road-rage incident on Pacific Coast Highway and was being chased when the crash occurred.