MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 23-year-old man accused of driving drunk when he crashed and a teenage boy died appeared in court on Thursday in Miami-Dade County.
Surveillance video shows Bryan Baez and 14-year-old Yansay Delgado leaving an apartment complex in the Naranja neighborhood, just two minutes before the crash on April 12, according to deputies.
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Baez, also known as Bryan Arturo Baez Martinez, was driving a gray 2006 Ford Escape without a Florida tag shortly after 9:30 p.m., and Yansay was the passenger in the front seat, according to deputies.
Baez was speeding when the gray Ford Escape skidded more than 220 feet, struck a guardrail, overturned onto its roof, and stopped on Naranja Lakes Boulevard, according to deputies.
The force of the impact ejected Yansay, who was not wearing a seatbelt, through the front window, his head hit the guardrail, and fire rescue personnel pronounced him dead at the scene, according to deputies.
The deputies who responded reported Baez had red bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage,” according to the deputies’ arrest report in the case.
Baez drove “while intoxicated and at a recklessly high rate of speed at night,” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.
Records show deputies arrested Baez, who was born in Cuba and lived in Naranja, shortly before 5 p.m., on Wednesday, and corrections booked him at about 7:40 p.m., at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Inmate records show Baez had a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold.