A Volkswagen driver killed a motorcyclist after 11 hours of drinking, Miami-Dade cops say

David J. Neal
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A Volkswagen driver going the wrong way on a Miami Shores street after 11 hours of drinking killed a motorcyclist Sunday morning and sent his passenger to a hospital in critical condition, police say.

Carlos Humberto Fabian Zepeda, a 41-year-old living in North Bay Village, has been arrested on charges of driving under the influence; DUI with serious bodily injury; and DUI with damage to property or person. More charges could be coming.

Bobby Jenkins was 36.

Bobby Jenkins.
Bobby Jenkins.

Jenkins passenger, Lindsey Christianna Laquerre, suffered a concussion, broken femur and broken pelvis.

According to the arrest report, a Miami Shores police sergeant saw the crash carnage at North 108th Street and North Miami Avenue around 3:05 a.m. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue arrived, declared Jenkins dead and took Laquerre to Ryder Trauma.

An Uber driver told Miami-Dade police that he was rolling south on Miami Avenue as were Jenkins and Laquerre, on Jenkins’ KTM motorcycle when Fabian let his Volkswagen Jetta slide from the northbound side to the southbound side. Fabian hit the Uber driver’s Hyundai and Jenkins’ motorcycle.

The Miami Shores police officer said Fabian “had bloodshot/watery eyes” and “was speaking incoherently,” claiming he was headed home when his North Bay Village home was in the opposite direction he had been going. And, he’d been going in that direction for several minutes. A license plate reader, Miami-Dade police say, caught Fabian’s car at 34th Street and North Miami Avenue at 2:57 a.m.

At the scene of the crash, cops found a cell phone that didn’t belong to anybody involved in the crash. When they found the owner, she said she and Fabian had been on a date and “had consumed alcoholic beverages at several locations from approximately 3 p.m. on (Saturday) until 2 a.m. on (Sunday) and [Fabian] had mistakenly kept her phone...”