MIAMI – Two days after DNA analysis from his vehicle’s airbag conclusively pinned him as the driver, a 30-year-old Miami man turned himself in Wednesday to face a felony charge in a 2023 hit-and-run crash just north of the Dolphin Expressway that rendered another man an amputee, police said.
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Miami police said Kenny Josue Ebanks, then 29, blew a red light at Northwest 27th Avenue and 14th Street in the city’s Grapeland Heights neighborhood on the morning of Dec. 1, 2023, hitting another vehicle and injuring its driver. Ebanks’ vehicle lost a tire, they said.
Ebanks, of Allapattah, tried driving on three tires but only made it about 750 feet before his vehicle came to a stop, police said. He got out and ran north on 27th Avenue, leaving the victim behind.
The victim would later be taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition. Doctors had to amputate his left arm.
Police said surveillance video from the Marathon gas station at 1390 NW 27th Ave. showed a shirtless Ebanks fleeing the scene.
A vehicle search conducted the next day pursuant to a warrant revealed several of Ebanks’ personal items in the vehicle, including his driver’s license and debit card, police said.
An arrest report states that detectives also took a DNA swab of the vehicle’s airbag. While awaiting the results, they said cellphone data put Ebanks at the scene.
More than a year after the crash, authorities said they received the DNA analysis from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office on Monday, leading Ebanks to turn himself in two days later at police headquarters in downtown Miami.
Ebanks, facing a charge of leaving the scene of a crash causing serious bodily injury, was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $25,000 bond as of Thursday.