WRENTHAM -- Over a dozen family members of 10-year-old Jaylen Bush-Victorian showed up in Wrentham District Court on Monday to see the boy’s alleged killer and drunken driver appear before a judge. “Murderer,” a woman shouted at 42-year-old Michael Escolas of Oxford after Judge Thomas Finigan set bail for him at $100,000 cash, the amount requested by prosecutors. “We want justice,” the boy’s paternal grandmother told reporters outside the courthouse as she held a photo of Jaylen and spoke alongside of his maternal grandmother.
They did not give their names and other family members said they were from Brockton and North Attleboro. “We want him held accountable for his actions and for the devastation he has caused our families,” the maternal grandmother said. “Our children are devastated that their child is no longer here to raise him, to raise him, to watch him to continue growing and just be the beautiful soul that he is.
” Jaylen was killed Saturday night in a crash in Plainville that also seriously injured his parents and three other children in their car. Prosecutors say the car was stopped at a traffic light on Route 1 South near Interstate 495 at about 8:30 when Escolas allegedly rear-ended the vehicle going 50 mph. He was driving a 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee he allegedly stole from a parking lot during a Kenny Chesney concert at Gillette Stadium, authorities say.
Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally said Escolas was tailgating in a parking lot with hi.