Police have released bodycam footage from the immediate aftermath of a deadly, horrible crash in downtown Miami last month.
According to a police report, at around 7 a.m. on August 10, 24-year-old Maecee Lathers was high on drugs and driving her white 2018 Mercedes south on North Miami Avenue.
According to the complaint, the social media model blew a red light at Eighth Street and then hit the throttle at “100 percent acceleration,” traveling approximately 80 mph on a street with a speed limit of 30 mph.
Lathers’ out-of-control vehicle collided with a black 2020 Range Rover heading west, which collided with a silver 2012 Suzuki driven by Abraham Ismael on his way to work. In the car with him were his fiancée, Juanita Hernandez, and a buddy, Jesus Rubio.
Ismael, the father of a teenage boy, was extricated from the debris and died at Jackson Memorial Hospital; Rubio was pronounced dead on the site; and Hernandez had “facial and arm lacerations.” The 23-year-old man in the Range Rover suffered minor injuries.
A bodycam captures the mayhem seconds later when first responders arrive with a stretcher. You can hear Lathers, who is lying on the ground, topless and breathing heavily, her hands bound behind her. At one point, she shouts in pain at the top of her lungs.
According to police, onlookers had to prevent Lathers, who was driving with a suspended license, from walking away from the accident. She likewise made no sense when questioned and claimed to be a time traveler.
“Stay like that,” an officer instructs her. “Look down!”
“She’s on tusi,” says another cop, referring to the recreational narcotic commonly known as pink cocaine. “She’s like, Oh, I’m from the future.”
The defendant, whose Miami Gardens address appears on the arrest document, first posted a bond and was placed under house arrest.
But on Tuesday, Lathers was handcuffed in court and returned to jail after prosecutors added two DUI manslaughter allegations.
According to state counsel, the toxicology report found a range of narcotics in the defendant’s system, but no alcohol.
The University of Albany alum is now facing 10 criminal accusations, including vehicular murder, reckless driving, and driving with a suspended license.
Lathers’ Instagram, whose bio describes her as an “entrepreneur,” is still visible. One photo shows her posing in front of a white Mercedes that resembles the one involved in the fatal incident. The comments are switched off.
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