Plant City Woman declares, again, to cause a fatal clash of DUI

Tampa – Jennifer Carvajal stopped in a room in the Tampa court on Monday and, for the second time in his life, admitted that he led drunk and caused an accident that killed someone.

The young woman in the city of the plant declared himself guilty of homicide in DUI, vehicular homicide and several other positions related to a high -speed collision in April 2021 that killed her cousin and seriously injured two other people. He also admitted to having violated his probation of an earlier case in which she, at age 16, drunk and killed a man.

Carvajal, 27, chose to let a judge decide how much prison time he will receive. He spent five years in prison for his previous case. This time, she can remain in prison for decades.

His guilt statement came in the final moments before a jury trial scheduled on Monday morning.

He stopped next to a public defender, with orange, his long black hair in a horsetail, while answering the questions of Judge G. Gregory Green.

“Are you declaring guilty because you are, in fact, guilty?” The judge asked.

“Yes, sir,” he said quietly.

Carvajal bowed his head, sometimes putting his hands over his eyes, when state prosecutor Dawn Hart recited a declaration of facts about crime.

It happened shortly after 1:30 am of April 25, 2021. Carvajal, who had revoked his driver’s license due to his previous conviction and was also subject to a curfew, stayed late after a family reunion and The wheel of a Hyundai Elantra silver ended.

While driving east along the interstatal 4, a soldier of the Florida road patrol recorded his speed at 111 mph. The soldier accelerated to reach it, its patrol lights and the siren sounded.

When it climbed behind the Hyundai, the car deviated from the right shoulder of the road and lowered a grass covered, then by an embankment. He turned in the air and cut a fence when he entered the Gator Ford concessionaire lot. The car overturned and crashed into a truck, a concrete light post and a palm tree before stopping.

Pedro Carbajal, 22, who had been in the back seat, was thrown from the car. Later he died in a hospital. Another passenger, Gray Ramírez, was seriously injured, along with Carbajal’s girlfriend, Lexcia González.

Later, the soldier found González lying on the floor outside the car. She had also been expelled. Both legs were broken. He pointed to Carvajal, who stopped near a fence, cut his skin and broke the glass in his hair.

Before Carvajal changed his guilt declaration, the defense lawyers had tried to prohibit a jury when he heard certain statements he had heard after the accident. They included the testimony of another soldier of the Road Patrol, who heard her talk to González.

“Please, tell them that I was driving,” he said, according to judicial records. “I’m going back for five more years.”

A ranger also listened to Carvajal to say that he needed to leave because he was supposed to be late, according to judicial records. The ranger, Isaac Parsons, asked what happened.

“Man, I liked five years, something like that,” said Carvajal, according to judicial records. “So I’m in papers. I am not even supposed to be out. “

Carvajal’s blood alcohol content was measured at 0.10 from a sample taken approximately three hours after the accident, according to the court records. State law implies deterioration at 0.08.

DNA that the investigators identified in the security belt of the Hyundai driver and the buckle coincided with Carvajal, said the prosecutor in the court. The researchers also obtained records of their Social Media Snapchat account, which included an image that shows a car speedometer, taken approximately at the same time as the accident. Showed a speed of 110 mph.

Carvajal was 16 when she was first accused of causing a fatal accident that drives drunk.

It happened on February 5, 2014 in North Alexander Street, near the I-4 exchange in Plant City. A little after dawn that day, it flew through a red light and crashed at 55 mph with a black Toyota Echo, which was coming out of the interstatal.

The driver, Keith Allen Davis, 52, left early that morning delivering copies of Tampa Tribune. Seriously injured, then died in a hospital.

In that case, also, Carvajal declared himself guilty and let a judge decide his sentence.

His young age and testimony about a life in which he endured a horrible abuse led a judge in that case to impose a five -year prison sentence. He came out and repeatedly was accused of violating probation before causing the second accident.

Carvajal previously rejected the state offer to accept a 50 -year sentence if he declared himself guilty. The state guidelines of sentence nail their lowest sentence suggested at 31 years in prison.

Prosecutors could request a life imprisonment at a hearing, which will occur at the end of May.