Browns WR Stallworth hits, kills Fla. pedestrian

Update. Someone was going to post this, might as well be me.....

A report from the Miami Herald states that Stallworth's blood alcohol level (.12) was above the legal limit of .08. Under Florida law, DUI manslaughter is a second-degree felony, carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. The victim, Marco Reyes (59), is survived by his wife of almost 20 years, Catalina, and the couple’s 15-year-old daughter, Daniela.

Thoughts and prayers to everyone involved with this incident. :(

Donte' Stallworth expected to be charged with DUI manslaughter - Breaking News - MiamiHerald.com
Lock him up. His action were manslaughter even without the booze. But the booze explains this:

Stallworth later told police at the Miami Beach police station that ''he had time to honk his horn and flash his headlights'' to warn Reyes, who was not in a crosswalk.
No sober person warns someone and then runs them down anyway. :rolleyes:


From what the local FOX affiliate said last night, because the toxicology report states he was BARELY over the legal limit...and the charges may very on what side of the report he is on....they wanted to triple and quadruple check that the results are right.
Barely???

Stallworth’s blood-alcohol level after the crash was .126, well above Florida’s legal limit of .08, according to results of a blood test. Stallworth will also be charged with DUI, which carries a possible six-month sentence plus fines and community service for first offenders.

Try more than 50% over the limit and that was after the crash.
 
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Lock him up. His action were manslaughter even without the booze. But the booze explains this:

No sober person warns someone and then runs them down anyway. :rolleyes:

Barely???

Try more than 50% over the limit and that was after the crash.

Well, the rumors was BARELY when the report initially came out in the local news because according to reports here, he DID pass his field sobriety test.
 
I do not feel sad Stallworth....like Vurbano said, no sober person would have honked, flashed his lights and then RUN HIM OVER! I feel bad for the family, from reports here, he was a very hard working family man that just finished a weekend shift. From ALL indications so far, he did nothing worng.
 
Lock him up. His action were manslaughter even without the booze. But the booze explains this:

No sober person warns someone and then runs them down anyway. :rolleyes:



Barely???



Try more than 50% over the limit and that was after the crash.

Maybe he thought it was a really big pigeon.:D That's the part that really gets me about this one. I saw yesterday, that he said "I blew my horn and flashed my lights." I guess he figured he had the right-of-way, and said "I'll teach this guy a lesson."
 
From what I've heard, Stallworth earned a $4.5 million bonus the VERY day before the incident. He went out to celebrate, drank and stayed overnight at a friends house. He got up in the morning (7AM) to drive home and that was the time of the accident.

Wouldn't it be a shame if he actually tried to sleep off the night and STILL had booze in his system the next morning when he drove home?!
 
From what I've heard, Stallworth earned a $4.5 million bonus the VERY day before the incident. He went out to celebrate, drank and stayed overnight at a friends house. He got up in the morning (7AM) to drive home and that was the time of the accident.

Wouldn't it be a shame if he actually tried to sleep off the night and STILL had booze in his system the next morning when he drove home?!
Wow, and still .126? Holy cow. He must have had some hair of the dog before he left.
 
From what I've heard, Stallworth earned a $4.5 million bonus the VERY day before the incident. He went out to celebrate, drank and stayed overnight at a friends house. He got up in the AM (7AM) to drive home and that was the time of the accident.

Wouldn't it be a shame if he actually tried to sleep off the night and STILL had booze in his system the next morning when he drove home?!

According to today's report..he had been drinking a few hours before the crash. It sound to me like he had been drinking most of the night.

Stallworth's whereabouts before the crash -- including a visit to a swanky Miami Beach club -- and his conversation with cops at the scene were detailed in an arrest warrant filed Wednesday by Miami Beach police Detective Kevin Millan.

Here is Millan's account of what happened the morning of March 14:

Stallworth had been drinking at Club Liv at the Fontainebleau on Miami Beach before leaving to go to a home in Miami, where he arrived about 6:15 a.m.

It's unclear if the home is Stallworth's residence. Stallworth owns two condos in downtown Miami and one in Midtown Miami, property records show.

An hour later, he drove his black Bentley east on the MacArthur Causeway, where he struck Reyes.

Donte' Stallworth bonds out of jail on DUI manslaughter charge - Breaking News - MiamiHerald.com
 
Stallworth & Victims Family Reach Financial Agreement to Avoid Suit

MIAMI -- Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth and the family of the pedestrian he is charged with hitting and killing with his car have reached a financial agreement to avoid a lawsuit.

A person close to the settlement negotiations on Tuesday told The Associated Press that the amount of the agreement was confidential. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the settlement.

Attorneys say Stallworth will plead guilty Tuesday in Miami to DUI manslaughter in the death of Mario Reyes.
[ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4262751"]Donte Stallworth of Cleveland Browns reaches financial agreement with family of victim Mario Reyes - ESPN[/ame]
 

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