The woman accused of killing an aspiring Miami-Dade firefighter in a wrong-way crash on the Florida Turnpike in Miramar last year has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and 10 years of probation Friday afternoon.
Sunshine Perez, 45, appeared emotional in Friday’s sentencing hearing, sobbing for nearly half an hour through her address to the judge. Perez plead guilty earlier this year to DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide in the death of 23-year-old Zeke Urrutia, who was killed in January 2025 when Perez drove several miles in the wrong direction before crashing into his car.
“Again, I struggle with knowing that my two hands caused so much trouble to a family. I mean, come on with a name like Sunshine, you expect that to be a happy, bubbly person which I typically am, but now it’s like a rain cloud over this family and anyone who knew him,” Perez said through tears…