Overview
- Police identified the suspect as Adan Negron-Morris, 42, of Lakeland, who was arrested inside a nearby Walgreens moments after the collision.
- Officers and multiple 911 callers reported a black Nissan Sentra driving recklessly without headlights before it struck two pedestrians at 73rd Street and Collins Avenue.
- The pedestrians, Sarisa Kongduang and Greatgomon Laowatdhanasapya, were transported in critical condition and later died at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
- Negron-Morris is booked on counts of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a crash involving death, and a DUI investigation was launched.
- Detectives say he told them he was trying to kill himself and had mental-health issues, and they are examining a potential connection to a prior hit-and-run that night.