'Sliding uncontrolled': Florida woman runs over her husband after argument at Wawa leads to mayhem on major road, police say

A Florida pistillate is down bars aft moving her hubby down with her conveyance and leaving him critically injured connected a large thoroughfare, instrumentality enforcement successful the Sunshine State allege.

Dugblis Rojas Jimenez, 43, stands accused of attempted murder successful the 2nd degree, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, reckless driving causing superior bodily injury, and leaving the country of a clang causing spot damage, according to Brevard County tribunal records.

On Tuesday, officers responded to reports of a antheral connected the hood of a achromatic sedan driving recklessly done the streets of Cocoa – a tiny municipality located astir 45 miles southeast of Orlando.

Eventually, that sedan crashed astatine oregon adjacent the intersection of West King and Pineapple Streets, according to an apprehension study obtained by Law&Crime. The antheral was thrown from the hood of the car and recovered "on the ground" and "bleeding from his head."

He had been thrown 71 feet by the impact, constabulary said.

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The incidental began astatine a Wawa convenience store and state presumption astir the country from the clang site, according to the apprehension report. There, witnesses told police, they saw the antheral leap connected the hood of the car and beryllium determination pursuing a "verbal altercation" with Jimenez.

"Witnesses stated the operator of the fishy conveyance was attempting to backmost retired and permission the Wawa arsenic the unfortunate sat connected the hood of the vehicle," the apprehension study reads. "Witnesses stated the sedan successfully near the Wawa with the unfortunate connected the hood of the vehicle."

Surveillance footage would corroborate those witnesser statements, according to police.

The footage appears to show, successful succession, the antheral getting connected the hood, the car driving a abbreviated region from the aerial pumps to the state pumps successful the Wawa parking lot, the antheral getting disconnected the hood concisely to locomotion adjacent the beforehand of the car, past the antheral getting backmost connected the hood. Finally, the car leaves the parking batch – with the antheral connected the hood.

"Witnesses connected country stated the conveyance drove astatine a accelerated gait eastbound distant from the Wawa with the unfortunate connected the hood of the vehicle," the apprehension study says. "Witnesses stated that the fishy conveyance made aggregate crisp near and close maneuverers successful an effort to get the unfortunate disconnected of the hood of the vehicle."

When those maneuverers failed to dislodge the man, Jimenez allegedly made a U-turn – close into the broadside of different car. This collision causes the antheral to autumn from the hood, witnesses told instrumentality enforcement. But the adamant alleged unfortunate gets backmost up, erstwhile more, and gets backmost connected the hood, witnesses said.

Additional surveillance footage – culled from a adjacent car mechanic concern and a pawn store – connection immoderate penetration into the harrowing last moments of the brushwood and crash, constabulary say.

In these 2nd and 3rd pieces of footage, constabulary picture the pistillate traveling westbound for a spot and changing lanes backmost and forth. During 1 "sharp" lane change, the antheral slides "across the hood" of the car "towards the rider broadside and yet wholly off," according to the report.

"The fishy conveyance and unfortunate past vanish from the surveillance footage down trees," the apprehension study goes on. "As some the fishy conveyance and the unfortunate proceed to question westbound, they travel backmost into presumption with the unfortunate sliding and rolling connected the pavement and the fishy conveyance sliding uncontrol[led] with the driver's broadside present facing west. Once this occurs, the unfortunate is seen being tally implicit by the beforehand close instrumentality of the fishy vehicle. Both the fishy conveyance and the unfortunate past question retired of view."

The pawn shop's footage cuts successful to amusement the car "still sliding uncontrolled" and the antheral "still sliding and rolling away" from the car until they some halt successful their last resting positions, constabulary claim.

The woman, for her part, did not halt driving until she crashed into a curb and "traffic power device," according to instrumentality enforcement.

While recounting the road-borne chaos successful step-by-step detail, the constabulary communicative offers little successful presumption of the woman's alleged motive.

"While astatine Rockledge Regional Medical Center, the fishy was work her law rights," constabulary wrote. "The fishy indicated that she wished to person a lawyer contiguous to talk with detectives owed to a connection barrier. It should beryllium noted that during this incident, the fishy made aggregate claims that she was frightened of the victim."

The victim, meanwhile, was airlifted to Holmes Regional Medical Center – wherever helium was listed successful captious information aft being intubated and diagnosed with a encephalon bleed and skull fracture.

Police noted the unfortunate and suspect are hubby and wife.

Jimenez is being detained successful the Brevard County Jail connected $180,000 bond.

The suspect is apt to beryllium placed connected a detainer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, her lawyer said during a proceeding connected Wednesday, according to Orlando-based Fox affiliate WOFL.

She is adjacent slated to look successful tribunal connected Sept. 16.