MIAMI – Surveillance video obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday shows the moments before and after a deadly downtown Miami crash police say was a hit-and-run caused by a social media model high on a party drug known as “tusi” — also known as “pink cocaine.”
Prosecutors say the video shows Maecee Marie Lathers speeding down North Miami Avenue in her Mercedes sedan on the morning of Aug. 10. While it doesn’t show the moment of impact, it does show what happened afterward.
Lathers, 24, of Miami Gardens, is seen in the clip walking away from the scene wearing a red hoodie. She then turns around and appears to blend in with a group of runners.
Police body camera video later shows her writhing in pain on the ground as she’s loaded into an ambulance.
Authorities said after the crash, which would leave Abraham Ismael and his friend Jesus Rubio dead, Lathers said she was “from the future” and had a “crystal ball” while saying she had taken “tusi.”
In court Monday, facing two recently-added DUI manslaughter charges, police said toxicology tests determined Lathers was positive for ketamine and MDMA, two common ingredients in “tusi.”
Lathers watched the videos of herself in tears during the hearing, in which a Miami-Dade judge ordered she remain jailed without bond.
“I think she’s extremely dangerous,” the judge said.
Police accuse Lathers of driving nearly 80 mph down the city street with her foot on the accelerator at “100%.” She also didn’t have a valid Florida driver’s license, they allege.
Lathers, a native of upstate New York, remained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Monday afternoon.
She’s next scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 22, with tentative trial dates in November.