The victim’s family speaks out, condemning the suspect and revealing how the incident reflects the death of the teenager’s father just three years earlier.
A Florida man is behind bars after allegedly fleeing the scene of two crashes, killing a teenager in one of them.
Edgardo Joel Rosado Perez (above left) was accused of leaving the scene of a deadly accident after the death of 18-year-old Bartow. high school student Zachariah Mark Clabough (above suitable) on Wednesday.
According to the Florida Freeway Patrol (via FOX13), Perez, 41, dropped his daughter off at school that morning and was worried about a minor accident. While fleeing “at high speed” from that incident in his 2018 Hyundai sedan, he allegedly struck and killed Clabough, who was walking to the same school his daughter attended.
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Rosado Perez is accused of also leaving the scene before returning home and parking the car in the storage room. Authorities say he then fled in a blue 2017 Ford Fiesta, which was tracked to the parking lot of a local shopping mall before Rosado Perez was arrested inside the building.
A reporter for The ledger who was dispatched to Rosado Perez’s home on Wednesday described seeing the Hyundai – saying “The front trim and hood were badly dented, and the windshield was broken, with a large gap on the driver’s side.”
According to Tampa Bay OccasionsRosado Perez was still being held without bond at the Falkenburg Street jail awaiting transfer to Polk County.
In a heartbreaking incident, the victim’s family revealed the deadly crash occurred three and a half years after Clabough’s father was killed by a drunk driver while outside a gas station.
“I can’t imagine we’ll have to do this another time. The man was just convicted again in December for killing my father. And now it’s March and I lose my brother? It’s so much work,” said Zachariah’s older sister, Dakota Runyon. WTSP.
“He didn’t sit with my brother. He didn’t name 911. He didn’t even stop. He just kept going. As if nothing had happened,” Runyon also said about the suspect. “He killed any individual. And he had his whole life ahead of him. He was simply learning who he was, what he wanted and who he wanted to be.”
A GoFundMe The planning page for Clabough’s funeral bills has already raised $15,700 – well beyond its initial goal of $10,000.
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