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New York City Criminal Court records have been updated to reflect that Luc C. Vu, the man arrested following the death New York City independent wrestler Matt "Travis" Palacios in 2019 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.
After pleading guilty, Vu's driver's license was revoked for six months and he was levied a $250 fine for failing to yield to a bicyclist charge.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, so unless something unexpected happens, his court record will be sealed on 9/3.
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.
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