Famed Snowboarding Daredevil Randomly Killed On L.A. Street
LAPPL News Watch
June 24, 2019
Dmitry Koltsov spent most of his life with two feet planted on a board. His ability to pull off precise tricks and flips while vaulting through the air on a snowboard earned him a place on the podium at Russian championship meets and international competitions.
Friends said his daredevil nature also made him a hero at skate parks in Southern California. He’d even taken his talents to the ocean, working as a surf instructor in Bali and later Los Angeles.
Friends said Koltsov was hopping off a board in downtown Los Angeles on June 10 with a group of other skaters when a Kia Sorrento drove toward them. Neither Koltsov nor his friends knew the man approaching them. Koltsov didn’t know the skate session he’d just completed would be his last.
Prosecutors say the man in the car, Rhett Nelson of Utah, shot Koltsov in the head without provocation.
It was the latest in a string of senseless, violent crimes that authorities say culminated an hour later when Nelson walked into a Jack in the Box restaurant in Alhambra and fatally shot veteran Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Joseph Solano.
Nelson has been charged with two counts of murder and other crimes.
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