In today’s Quickcast:
Hurricane Beryl battered the Caribbean island of Carriacou in Grenada as a powerful Category 4 storm. Beryl is expected to move across the southeastern and central Caribbean next. CBS News’ Cristian Benavides has the latest.
A man has been arrested after allegedly carjacking a vehicle with a 3-year-old girl still inside and later abandoning the toddler on an Oakland Park sidewalk, a moment that was caught on video last week.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office said an anonymous tip led them to 35-year-old Willio Petioma.
On June 26th, around 8:30 a.m., the BSO’s Special Victims Unit was called out to a report of a stolen vehicle at 850 W. Commercial Blvd.
During the investigation, detectives learned that a mother and her daughter were involved in a car crash with another driver in the area. When the mother got out of her car to exchange information with the other driver, who the sheriff’s office identified as Petioma, he jumped into her vehicle, police said.
Investigators said the woman grabbed onto the front passenger door of her car and yelled to the man that her daughter was still inside. She was dragged along with it for a short distance before falling to the ground as the man drove off.
Authorities identified this Monday a man who collapsed and died possibly after being struck by lightning while walking on a Davie park on Sunday.
Davie police identified the victim as 19-year-old Ethan Lawrence, who died while at Vista View Park on Sunday morning. Police said Lawrence was walking in the park when someone saw him fall on the ground.
Lightning was in the area around 10:20 a.m. According to the Broward County Parks Department, the park does have lightning predictors that activate when lightning may hit. The county said they are 97% accurate.
A park worker confirmed that the alarms went off moments after Lawrence collapsed.
Ethan Lawrence was described in a Facebook post as a "beautiful, smart, athletic, wonderful young man" by Sarah Ramsey, a family friend. According to Perry’s Facebook post, Lawrence was into running.
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