The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that a 35-year-old man from Boca Raton is facing two charges of DUI manslaughter after two elderly New Yorkers died and a woman was seriously hurt when his vehicle hit theirs after running a red light in February near Boca Raton.
Jamie Josue Gomez Escobedo is also being charged with driving while drunk and hurting someone seriously. All three of these are crimes.
Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., he was picked up by the Fugitive Warrants Unit of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. At 3:37 p.m., he was checked into the county jail.
After the accident at 10:30 a.m. on February 1, the crossing of U.S. Highway 441 and Kimberly Road was closed for about five hours.
The crash report says that Escobedo ran a red light in a southbound 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee in the outside lane of U.S. 441 near Kimberly. The other names were not given by the deputies.
An 82-year-old man was driving west on Kimberly in a 2021 Nissan Rogue and tried to go through the crossing when the light was green.
The Jeep and the Nissan got into an accident. The front of the Jeep hit the passenger side of the Nissan with a lot of force. The Nissan went southwest and flipped over violently before coming to a stop on its roof in the southwest corner of the crossing.
Before coming to a stop in the northbound lanes of the intersection, the Jeep went in a southwesterly direction while turning clockwise.
The driver of the Nissan and a woman who was 79 years old were both dead at the scene. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue helped a woman from Boca Raton get out of the car. She was then taken to Delray Medical Center.
