Woman who told boyfriend 'you'll get what you deserve' before she crashed Honda into a tree 'out of anger' hears the jury's judgment

A Florida pistillate who prosecutors accidental intentionally crashed her car "out of anger" portion speeding down an interstate with her fellow — leaving him successful a coma with injuries that aboriginal proved fatal — has been recovered blameworthy of sidesplitting the 22-year-old. It took jurors conscionable 71 minutes to convict her.

"She was driving the car that nighttime astatine utmost speeds and aggressively," said Assistant State Attorney Melissa Clark during closing arguments Wednesday earlier Leigha Mumby, 25, was recovered blameworthy of reckless driving causing superior bodily wounded and vehicular homicide for the decease of Daniel Waterman. The proceedings was streamed by Law&Crime's sister network, Court TV.

"She's irate with Daniel," Clark explained. "She had conscionable recovered retired that precise greeting that she was large with his kid and past learns that he's been texting with different woman. And she's furious. She's truthful furious, she calls her champion person to vent astir it, screaming astir Daniel texting with different woman. And erstwhile her champion person doesn't respond the mode she likes, she abruptly hangs up. That was Leigha Mumby's demeanor astatine the clip of the crash, and her driving signifier is accordant with that."

The February 2025 clang happened on Interstate 95 successful Flagler County. Waterman woke up from his coma connected May 15,  a small implicit 3 months later, and told constabulary that Mumby "intentionally" crashed her 2019 Honda Passport. He sustained a "C6-7 fracture, cervical spine injury, clavicle fracture, femur fracture, hep dislocation, epidural hematoma, pneumothorax with pulmonary contusion, zygomatic and temporal contusion, [and a] talus fracture," according to the criminal complaint.

"I don't attraction what happens, you'll get what you deserve," Mumby, who was Waterman's woman astatine the time, told Waterman earlier swerving disconnected the roadworthy and "colliding with a tree, making Daniel incapacitated," according to the complaint.

Waterman was incapable to speech aft helium woke up from his coma, truthful constabulary reportedly pointed to letters connected a committee and asked him to marque sounds to bespeak which ones to spell out, according to his mom, who spoke to Syracuse.com. On Oct. 8, Waterman died aft processing pneumonia.

"He ne'er gave up," his parent said. "This full full time, helium virtually ne'er gave up."

Mumby was reportedly charged aft Waterman woke up and told constabulary what happened. "In his interview, Daniel stated that helium and Leigha were successful an statement owed to idiosyncratic issues with Leigha uncovering retired she was large that time and a substance connection Daniel received from a pistillate person successful New York," the researcher who interviewed Waterman explained successful the complaint.

"Daniel and Leigha exchanged expletives," the researcher wrote. "Daniel stated, Leigha began driving recklessly."

According to Waterman, Mumby slowed down her Honda Passport to 50 mph and helium tried to get retired of the car earlier she sped up to 80 to 90 mph, according to the complaint. Waterman said the "last happening helium remembers earlier the crash" was Mumby allegedly telling him she didn't attraction what happened and that helium was getting what helium deserved.

Prosecutors said during Mumby's proceedings this week that she deed speeds implicit 100 mph earlier crashing.

A relative of Waterman's told FlaglerLive.com successful October 2025 that Mumby texted her from Waterman's telephone conscionable minutes earlier the crash, saying, "This is what helium gets for being a liar and a cheater." The cousin, Jessica Stappenbeck, recalled speaking to Waterman earlier successful the time astir the pregnancy.

"During the day, helium did say, helium didn't cognize what helium was going to do, and helium didn't similar however Leigha was handling the situation," Stappenbeck told FlaglerLive. She said the mates had plans to ticker the Super Bowl astatine Stappenbeck's location that day. They reportedly near earlier the extremity of the crippled and got onto I-95 heading southbound earlier turning astir astatine Palm Coast Parkway and traveling north, according to police.

"Leigha made these statements and instantly swerved disconnected the roadworthy to clang her car," the ailment says.

Waterman's household aboriginal claimed that his dying privation was for them to get custody of the couple's babe girl. "We'll bash immoderate we tin bash to bring her to us," his parent told Syracuse.com. "He wanted her raised successful New York with his family."

The custody presumption of the kid was chartless Wednesday.