MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – A 36-year-old man died and a woman was injured Sunday after a wrong-way crash in Miami Shores with a 41-year-old man who was driving home after an 11-hour date in which he was drinking on and off, according to police.
According to Capt. Christine Herbert, of the Miami Shores Police Department, police officers spotted the fiery crash after 3:05 a.m., near Barry University. Miami-Dade traffic homicide detectives investigated it.
According to Detective Argemis Colome, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, Carlos Humberto Fabian collided with a car and a motorcycle on North Miami Avenue, near Northeast 108th Street.
Miami Shores police officers closed North Miami Avenue. Miami-Dade firefighters faced the flames coming from Fabian’s Volkswagen Jetta. Fire rescue personnel declared Bobby Jenkins, the motorcyclist, dead and took Lindsey Laquerre, the motorcyclist’s passenger, to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
Hours after the crash, a white tarp covered Jenkins’s body near what was left of his KTM motorcycle. Laquerre had broken bones and a head concussion, according to police. The burned Jetta had crossed the grass and was on the sidewalk. It had stopped at a line of tall bushes near a house.
“He has a son -- he has sisters and brothers,” Jenkins’s mother, Judy Maffett, told Local 10 News.
Detectives accused Fabian, a North Bay Village resident born in Guatemala, of driving northbound on the southbound lanes. According to police, Alain Louissant, an Uber driver traveling southbound, reported the Jetta collided with his Hyundai first before the head-on crash with the motorcycle.
During the investigation, detectives found Kelly Gonzalez’s cellphone inside the Jetta. According to police, Gonzalez wasn’t in the car, but she reported she saw Fabian drinking alcohol with her off and on from about 3 p.m., on Saturday, to about 2 a.m., on Sunday, while the two were on a date.
According to the arrest report, Fabian agreed to blood draws with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel at about 5:50 a.m., 9:40 a.m., and 10:40 a.m., and police officers arrested him at about 11 a.m. He was facing charges of driving under the influence, DUI causing serious bodily injury, and two counts of DUI damage to property or person.
“It’s pain and I have to forgive, but he has to pay -- he has to pay and everybody has to pay for what they do and they can never replace my son,” Judy Maffett said.
“He was a very ambitious young man. He was a family man and always there when we needed him,” Jenkin’s father, Sam Maffett, said. “I offer forgiveness to the young man and may God have mercy on his soul.”
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Joyce Grace Ortega contributed to this report.
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