FORT LAUDERDALE — Police body camera footage shows the moments after a fatal car crash in Pompano Beach following the police pursuit of a car believed to have been involved in an armed carjacking on May 10th.
According to police, four teenagers and a 20-year-old pistol whipped and robbed 25-year-old Rider Prospere in Hallandale Beach, before stealing his car and joyriding through Broward County.
Prosecutors say 16-year-old Justin Edmond was the driver, and that he crashed into 68-year-old Patricia Schmelz.
Body camera video shows the moment a Hallandale Beach police officer rushed over to check out Schmelz’s condition and when he backed away said she was a “Code 7,” meaning he believed she was dead.
But after arresting the suspects, the officers went back, pulled Schmelz out of the car and realized she was still alive.
They tried to save her, but she died.
On Thursday, an attorney spoke out and shifted the responsibility for Schmelz’s death to police.