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.
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.