At 16, she drove drunk and killed a man. It happened again.
DAN SULLIVAN, Tampa Bay Times
May 15, 2021
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Five years ago, a diminutive teenage girl with striking brown eyes stood shackled and weeping in a Tampa courtroom.
Jennifer Carvajal admitted she was drunk early one morning a few weeks shy of her 17th birthday. She admitted that she’d blown through a red light and slammed into another car, killing the driver. She admitted she’d made a terrible mistake and vowed to become a better person.
“One person paid the ultimate price for my selfish behavior,” she said.
Woman accused of second fatal drunk driving crash to stay jailed
The state asked that Jennifer Carvajal be held in jail pending trial. A defense attorney did not contest the request.
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A destroyed Hyundai Elantra sits in the parking lot of Gator Ford off Interstate 4 following an April 25 crash that left one dead and three injured. Jennifer Carvajal faces charges that include DUI manslaughter related to the crash. [ Florida Highway Patrol ]
Updated May 10
TAMPA â The woman accused for the second time of driving drunk and causing a fatal crash in Hillsborough County will stay in jail as she awaits trial.
REVEALED: Woman, 24, arrested after 111mph police chase and crash that killed her cousin while she was on probation for ANOTHER deadly wreck has a history of alcohol abuse and walked out of a treatment center last year
Jennifer Carvajal, 24, was arrested on April 25 after a Highway Patrol trooper recorded the car she was allegedly driving tearing down the road at 111 mph
Carvajal s cousin Pedro Carbajal, 22, was killed when he was ejected from the back seat of the car when it wrecked after making a hard right turn
Pedro s girlfriend Lexcia Gonzalez, 20, was also ejected from the back seat and broke both of her legs
At 16, she drove drunk and killed a man. At 24, cops say, she did it again
Updated May 08, 2021;
Posted May 08, 2021
Jennifer Carvajal, a Plant City, Fla., teenager who pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter appears at the Hillsborough County Courthouse in Tampa on December 17, 2015. (Octavio Jones/Tampa Bay Times/TNS)TNS
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TAMPA, Fla. – Five years ago, a diminutive teenage girl with striking brown eyes stood shackled and weeping in a Tampa courtroom.
Jennifer Carvajal admitted she was drunk early one morning a few weeks shy of her 17th birthday. She admitted that she’d blown through a red light and slammed into another car, killing the driver. She admitted she’d made a terrible mistake and vowed to become a better person.