FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A woman who pled guilty to a killer crash learned her fate on Friday.
It was an emotional morning at the Broward County courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, where one family said they are destroyed, and the woman accused of causing their pain, said she is haunted by what happened and knows her words can’t change what’s happened.
Forty-five-year-old Sunshine Perez, pled guilty to a driving under the influence manslaughter charge in connection to the death of 23-year-old old Zeke Urrutia. As she made her plea, Perez was wracked with emotion, sobbing before the court.
In January 2025, Urrutia, who was a Florida International University graduate and paramedic that also aspired to become a firefighter, was killed after being struck by Perez, who had been driving several miles in the wrong direction along the Turnpike Extension in Miramar.
