FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fort Lauderdale police arrested a woman on more than a dozen charges Tuesday, exactly three months after they said she ran away from a deadly crash that she caused when she wasn’t even supposed to be behind the wheel.
Court records show Broward prosecutors are seeking to keep the suspect, Beverly Yvonne Slaughter, locked up ahead of her trial because of an extremely checkered driving history.
According to police, the crash happened just after 1 a.m. on April 29 along West Sunrise Boulevard at Northwest 24th Avenue.
Police said Slaughter, 25, of Opa-locka, was speeding in a Mercedes-Benz S-Class when she ran a red light and broadsided a Nissan Altima making a left turn “with a solid green” signal.
A complaint affidavit states that after the crash, Slaughter got out of her car and ran off. But police said an officer who quickly arrived at the crash scene tailed her and caught up to her as she was “walking extremely discreet between a bushy fence line and a concrete wall” of a nearby McDonald’s parking lot.
According to police, Slaughter told the officer that “her boyfriend told her to run away.”
The wreck would send four injured victims to Broward Health Medical Center, one of whom died after being taken off life support on May 2. His or her name was redacted from documents appearing on the Broward Clerk of Courts website.
Slaughter now faces 14 charges, including counts of vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a crash involving death and driving while license suspended causing death.
Prosecutors with the Broward State Attorney’s Office have filed a motion for pre-trial detention, highlighting the fact that Slaughter’s license has been suspended since 2021.
The motion states that Slaughter has been convicted of driving without a license, driving on a suspended license, driving under the influence, fleeing and eluding and reckless driving.
In the motion, Assistant State Attorney Ross Weiner wrote that the facts “indicate a disregard for the safety of the community,” stating that “there are no conditions of release reasonably sufficient to protect the community from the risk of physical harm.”
As of Wednesday morning, Slaughter was being held in the Broward Main Jail.
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