An accused drunk driver out celebrating his birthday is now charged with killing a 19-year-old faculty pupil in Miami Seaside — hanging her parked Jeep so arduous at 100 mph that she flew into the air.
When cops caught up with 24-year-old Nicholas Robinson he was so boozed up in the course of the lethal Friday morning wreck that he was “utterly unaware” of what he had achieved, in accordance with a Miami Seaside police report reviewed by WPLG-TV Information.
“Why are you stopping me?” he allegedly informed police. “It’s my birthday, and did you get the opposite automotive?”
Police mentioned the crash killed Gabriela Flores, a Florida Worldwide College pupil from El Salvador, who was pronounced lifeless close to her mangled Jeep, the outlet mentioned.
Robinson was initially charged with drunk driving and reckless driving — however the fees have been upgraded to vehicular manslaughter throughout a courtroom look on Tuesday.
“We’re right here as a result of he’s driving at a excessive fee of velocity, I suppose shortly after midnight on February twenty first and smashes right into a automotive going west on Macarthur Causeway,” Miami-Dade County Choose Mindy Glazer mentioned, WPLG reported. “They are saying he was driving 100 miles per hour in a 40-mile-per-hour zone, he had slurred speech, odor of alcoholic beverage.
“In reality, he didn’t even know he hit one other automotive,” the choose mentioned. “He mentioned ‘did you get the opposite automotive?’ He struck the car, the sufferer was ejected and he mentioned he’s out celebrating his birthday. So I suppose it was his birthday and the sufferer’s loss of life day.”
Courtroom data present Robinson is being held on $100,000 bail on the Miami-Dade jail.
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