FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 19-year-old Fort Lauderdale man is dealing with DUI manslaughter expenses in reference to a deadly crash that police say occurred late final 12 months.
Jail data present Brandon Robert Gunn is dealing with one rely every of vehicular manslaughter with DUI inflicting demise to a human and vehicular manslaughter killing of a human being or unborn little one.
In keeping with his arrest report, the crash occurred round 4 a.m. on Dec. 27, 2024, within the 1000 block of East Dawn Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.
Police stated Gunn, then 18, was driving a silver Ford Focus westbound when he struck an individual who was strolling northbound within the crosswalk.
The sufferer, whose title was redacted from the report, was hit by the entrance of Gunn’s automotive and “(slid) over 300 ft from the world of affect to his closing relaxation,” the report said. The sufferer was pronounced useless on the scene.
Investigators famous that Gunn’s automobile had intensive injury to the entrance hood, windshield, each ends of the roof and rear window.
They stated there was blood on the again of the automobile and the motive force’s facet knee airbag had deployed following the crash. Police stated additionally they discovered shattered glass and a “vital quantity” of blood within the driver’s seat.
“This injury was in line with the automobile placing a pedestrian at an extreme velocity, in line with the scene proof,” detectives wrote within the report.
Gunn spoke with officers on the scene and stated he was westbound when “some homeless man ran out in entrance of me and I hit him,” the report said.
When requested how briskly he was driving, Gunn stated “55 mph.” He denied having drunk any alcohol when questioned by each cops and Fort Lauderdale Hearth Rescue crews, authorities stated.
Nonetheless, they stated surveillance video confirmed Gunn’s automobile accelerating within the seconds earlier than the crash.
For the time being the airbag deployed, the automotive was touring roughly 83 mph in a 35 mph zone, in line with the report.
Authorities stated Gunn had “bloodshot watery eyes and an odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from his breath.”
A blood take a look at carried out greater than 4 hours after the crash revealed the presence of ethanol and THC, and a blood-alcohol content material of .127%. The authorized restrict for BAC in Florida is .08%.
As of Tuesday, he was being held on a $75,000 bond on the Broward Primary Jail.
A decide dominated that Gunn could drive just for work functions, ordered him to give up his passport and prohibited him from utilizing medicine and alcohol. All expenses carry bond, plus pretrial launch and digital alcohol monitoring.
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