At 16, she drove drunk and killed a man. It happened again.
DAN SULLIVAN, Tampa Bay Times
May 15, 2021
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Five years ago, a diminutive teenage girl with striking brown eyes stood shackled and weeping in a Tampa courtroom.
Jennifer Carvajal admitted she was drunk early one morning a few weeks shy of her 17th birthday. She admitted that she’d blown through a red light and slammed into another car, killing the driver. She admitted she’d made a terrible mistake and vowed to become a better person.
“One person paid the ultimate price for my selfish behavior,” she said.
REVEALED: Woman, 24, arrested after 111mph police chase and crash that killed her cousin while she was on probation for ANOTHER deadly wreck has a history of alcohol abuse and walked out of a treatment center last year
Jennifer Carvajal, 24, was arrested on April 25 after a Highway Patrol trooper recorded the car she was allegedly driving tearing down the road at 111 mph
Carvajal s cousin Pedro Carbajal, 22, was killed when he was ejected from the back seat of the car when it wrecked after making a hard right turn
Pedro s girlfriend Lexcia Gonzalez, 20, was also ejected from the back seat and broke both of her legs
At 16, she drove drunk and killed a man. At 24, cops say, she did it again
Updated May 08, 2021;
Posted May 08, 2021
Jennifer Carvajal, a Plant City, Fla., teenager who pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter appears at the Hillsborough County Courthouse in Tampa on December 17, 2015. (Octavio Jones/Tampa Bay Times/TNS)TNS
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TAMPA, Fla. – Five years ago, a diminutive teenage girl with striking brown eyes stood shackled and weeping in a Tampa courtroom.
Jennifer Carvajal admitted she was drunk early one morning a few weeks shy of her 17th birthday. She admitted that she’d blown through a red light and slammed into another car, killing the driver. She admitted she’d made a terrible mistake and vowed to become a better person.
At 16, she drove drunk and killed a man. At 24, cops say she did it again.
For the second time, Jennifer Carvajal stands accused of DUI manslaughter. What happened?
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Jennifer Carvajal, a Plant City teenager who pleaded no contest to DUI manslaughter appears at the Hillsborough County Courthouse in Tampa on Thursday, December 17, 2015. [ Tampa Bay Times ]
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Five years ago, a diminutive teenage girl with striking brown eyes stood shackled and weeping in a Tampa courtroom.
Jennifer Carvajal admitted she was drunk early one morning a few weeks shy of her 17th birthday. She admitted that sheâd blown through a red light and slammed into another car, killing the driver. She admitted sheâd made a terrible mistake and vowed to become a better person.