Cops have released bodycam footage of the immediate aftermath of a fatal, horrific crash in downtown Miami last month.
According to a police report, at a little before 7 a.m. on Aug. 10, 24-year-old Maecee Lathers was high on drugs and speeding her white 2018 Mercedes south on North Miami Avenue.
The social media model reportedly blew the red light at Eighth Street, then put her foot on the gas at “100 percent acceleration,” driving nearly 80 mph on a street with a posted speed limit of 30 mph, says the report.
Lathers’ out of control sedan slammed into a black 2020 Range Rover traveling west, which smashed into a silver 2012 Suzuki, driven by Abraham Ismael, on the way to work. Also in the car was his fiancée, Juanita Hernandez, and a friend, Jesus Rubio.
Ismael, father of a teenage son, was extricated from the wreckage and died at Jackson Memorial Hospital; Rubio was pronounced dead on the scene; and Hernandez was badly injured with “facial and arm lacerations.” The 23-year-old man in the Range Rover sustained minor injuries.
Bodycam shows the chaos moments later as first responders with a stretcher arrives. You can hear Lathers, who is on the ground, topless and breathing heavily, her hands cuffed behind her. At one point she screams in pain at the top of her lungs.
Police said Lathers — driving with a suspended license — had to be prevented from walking away from the accident by bystanders. She also was making no sense when asked questions and claimed to be a time traveler.
“Stay like that,” an officer tells her. “Look down!”
“She’s on tusi,” says another officer, referring to the party drug also known as pink cocaine. “She’s like, Oh, I’m from the future.”
The defendant who has a Miami Gardens address listed on the arrest affidavit, initially posted bond and was placed under house arrest.
But on Tuesday, Lathers was handcuffed in court and sent back to jail after prosecutors tacked on two DUI manslaughter charges.
According to state attorneys, the toxicology report revealed a variety of drugs in the defendant’s system, but no alcohol.
The University of Albany alum now faces 10 criminal charges, including vehicular homicide, reckless driving, and driving with a suspended license.
Lathers’ Instagram, whose bio calls her an “entrepreneur,” is still public. One post shows her posing in front a white Mercedes that looks similar to the one involved in the deadly crash. The comments are turned off.
