Overview
- The Atlanta Braves reported a matching Mustang on their compound, leading troopers to arrest 18-year-old Jonathan Matos Morales on vehicular homicide and fleeing a crash involving death.
- The three-vehicle chain reaction began just before 6:30 a.m. Monday near Mile Marker 220 on southbound I-75 when a dark Mustang moved into the center lane and hit a Chevy Trailblazer driven by a 63-year-old man.
- The impact pushed the SUV into a loaded semi-truck’s path, the truck overturned and blocked all three lanes, and the driver, 34-year-old Stavan Albert Facey of New Smyrna Beach, died at the scene.
- Video shows the Mustang stopping briefly after the collisions before fleeing south, and troopers later located and impounded the car tied to the crash.
- FHP’s Traffic Homicide Unit is still working to determine the Mustang’s speed and whether others were inside, while the Braves say the player was formerly in their minor league system and that they are cooperating.