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TV Director's Son Accused of Murder in California Car Crash

Aired February 27, 2001 - 11:20 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Just in a few minutes from now, we're told, in California, a college freshman will be arraigned on a number of charges related to last week's car crash that killed four pedestrians. David Attias, the son of a television director, is accused of running over the victims in an area near the University of California-Santa Barbara campus. Last night, candles lit up the scene of the tragedy. Hundreds of people turned out in a cold rain for a memorial service for the victims.

Reporter Steven Miller (ph) with our affiliate KUSI has more now on the tragedy that has shaken an entire community.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

STEVEN MILLER, KUSI REPORTER (voice-over): Sheriff's deputies knock on Sally Jo Divis's (ph) door. She knows it is not good news. She asks:

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, which one? I've got three kids. And I don't remember exactly what he said, but the next sentence said something about Santa Barbara, and then I knew.

MILLER: The sheriff deputies told Sally Jo Divis her son, 20- year-old University of California at Santa Barbara student Christopher, died with three others when a car mowed them down. The alleged driver of the car, David Attias, is charged with four counts of murder, along with numerous other charges.

But for Sally Jo Divis, what happens next to the man charged with the murder of her son will have to wait. Vengeance is not her concern -- not now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As I told the DA tonight, I'll call you when I want to know more. I don't want to hear about it right now. I know what's going to happen. I've seen it over the years, you know. By the time this is over with, everybody's going to know every detail of the boy's life. My son's dead. I really don't care about him nearly as much.

MILLER: The pictures tell a lot about Christopher Divis. A graduate of Rancho Bueno Vista High School, he was known for his academic brilliance and his sense of humor. His sister, Deborah O'Mally (ph), says his poetry and photography reflect the kind of man he was becoming. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "My life, my soul, my existence, the very world I live in, and that would still merely be a glimpse of what you mean to me."

I hadn't read this poem by him until today and it hit so hard because that's what my brother meant to me, and I know he meant to a lot of people.

MILLER: Sally Jo says her grieving has just begun. Yet even while in agony over her loss, she feels the pain of the other parents who also lost a child.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm not the only mother today who lost a child. It hurts me, but I know there's many other people out there hurting, the other family that's lost one and maybe two. I can't even imagine that one.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: We've now received word that that hearing of the college freshman -- or the arraignment, rather, has been delayed. And we expect that about 12:15. And as soon as that happens, we will bring you the latest on David Attias and his arraignment.

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