The criminal records regarding the 2019 death of New York City independent wrestler Matt "Travis" Palacios are slated be sealed on 9/30, according to New York City Criminal Court records.
Luc Vu, the man charged in relation to the incident, has completed his compliance after pleading guilty last year to reckless driving and failure to exercise due care, causing serious injury as well as failure to yield to a bicyclist. The order to seal the records was made on 9/3 and will be completed on 9/30 after Vu makes a final payment to the court.
After pleading guilty, Vu's driver's license was revoked for six months and he was levied a $250 fine for failing to yield to a bicyclist charge. He was told at the time that he would receive a conditional discharge after a year. That has now happened.
Palacios was struck while traveling on a bike path in East Harlem about 2:30 AM on Saturday 11/9/19 when a dump truck driver made an illegal left u-turn to get onto the Willis Avenue Bridge. Travis was struck and although rushed to the hospital, suffered serious trauma and was pronounced dead when he arrived. It is not clear whether Vu was aware he struck Travis. Vu was driving for Parsipanny, New Jersey-based D&A Contracting LLC, which fired him upon learning of his arrest.
“I’m shocked, happy and depressed at the same time,” said Palacios' mother, Yolanda Nieves to StreetblogNYC last year after Vu had been charged. “I was so depressed without my son. [Vu] should pay for what he did to my child — if it was a mistake he could have said he was sorry, but I haven’t heard any apologies.” Nieves told Streetblog she felt she had been kept in the dark during the investigation.
Palacios, who was returning home from professional wrestling training when he was struck, was only 25 years old.
AEW's Private Party, Santana and Ortiz paid tribute to Palacios on an episode of Dynamite shortly after his passing.
Cred tp PWInsider for this.
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