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 Facebook Share 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.