A 23-year-old man accused of driving drunk when he crashed and a teenage boy died appeared in court on Thursday in Miami-Dade County.
Surveillance video shows Bryan Baez and 14-year-old Y D leaving an apartment complex in the Naranja neighborhood, just two minutes before the crash on April 12, according to deputies.
B, also known as BABM, was driving a gray 2006 Ford Escape without a Florida tag shortly after 9:30 p.m., and Yansay was the passenger in the front seat, according to deputies.
B was speeding when the gray Ford Escape skidded more than 220 feet, struck a guardrail, overturned onto its roof, and stopped on Naranja Lakes Boulevard, according to deputies.
The force of the impact ejected Y, who was not wearing a seatbelt, through the front window, his head hit the guardrail, and fire rescue personnel pronounced him dead at the scene, according to deputies.
The deputies who responded reported B had red bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage,” according to the deputies’ arrest report in the case.
B drove “while intoxicated and at a recklessly high rate of speed at night,” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.
Records show deputies arrested B, who was born in Cuba and lived in Naranja, shortly before 5 p.m., on Wednesday, and corrections booked him at about 7:40 p.m., at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Inmate records show B had a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold.
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Source: local10
