FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — New details were released after deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrested a 57-year-old man after a deadly confrontation this past weekend following reports of a hit-and-run in Fort Lauderdale.
Authorities said Wayne Morgan Brutton was booked earlier this week into the Broward County Main Jail on a manslaughter charge.
Investigators said the incident began just after 8:30 p.m. near the 300 block of Northwest 29th Terrace, when Humphrey Willoughby, 50, sideswiped Brutton’s parked car while driving southbound.
According to deputies, Willoughby reversed and struck Brutton’s vehicle a second time.
That’s when they said Brutton then exited his car and pursued Willoughby on foot. Witnesses tried to intervene as the confrontation escalated.
Authorities said a short time later, Brutton and Willoughby got into a fight, during which Brutton punched Willoughby multiple times in the face. He told deputies he has about eight years of boxing experience that he gained while serving a previous prison sentence.
Willoughby was transported to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:05 p.m. Investigators said his fatal injuries were the result of the blows and his subsequent fall to the ground.
Camille Willoughby, the victim’s ex-wife, told Local 10 earlier this week that she was heartbroken for their 5-year-old son.
“Humphrey was involved in a crash, and the guy caught up with him, and they had a fight, and he fell and hit his head, and he is deceased,” she said. “Nobody should die like that. A car can be fixed. It’s something that could have been worked out without people getting into an altercation and killing somebody over something that could have been prevented.”
As of Thursday, Brutton is being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.
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