A Sunday night crash in unincorporated Broward County spiraled from fender bender to fatal confrontation, leaving 50-year-old Humphrey Willoughby dead and a 5-year-old boy without his father, relatives said.
Family members said Willoughby was involved in a hit-and-run collision that quickly turned into a fight. He was rushed to a hospital after the altercation and later died there. Deputies arrested 57-year-old Wayne Brutton the following day and booked him on a manslaughter charge, according to authorities. Relatives said Willoughby leaves behind a 5-year-old son.
What deputies say
The Broward Sheriff’s Office reports that deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue responded shortly after 8:30 p.m. to the area of the 300 block of Northwest 29th Terrace. According to the agency, witnesses stopped Willoughby’s vehicle after the initial crash.
BSO spokeswoman Claudinne Caro-Guaraldi wrote that Willoughby struck Brutton’s vehicle as Brutton was preparing to back into a driveway, then drove off from the scene. Brutton, investigators say, chased after him on foot, and a physical confrontation followed. The sheriff’s office reports that Willoughby was taken to a hospital, where he later died, and that Brutton was arrested and booked into the county jail, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
Charges and booking
As reported by Local 10, Brutton, 57, was being held at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale on a manslaughter charge. Broward County Circuit Judge Frank Ledee was set to preside over the case, according to the outlet…