Just days after Christmas, three teenage boys who were each other’s best friends died in a severe roll-over crash in Pompano Beach, possibly due to excessive speed, according to investigators.
In multiple 911 calls released Wednesday by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, witnesses described numerous people trying to remove the teens from a mangled 2014 white BMW M5 after the car hit a median in the 1600 block of North Federal Highway and lost control. The BMW smashed into a 2024 Acura Integra with two women and a 5-year-old child inside, then slid across the road and crashed into a bus stop, a light pole and a tree.
Richard Manuel Alcocer, 18, who was the driver of the BMW, and his two passengers Miguel Montez, 16, and Ruben Baltazar, 15, were extricated by first responders and pronounced dead at Broward Health North on Monday evening, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The boys were students at Blanche Ely High School. Relatives told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that the three were more like family than friends because they were so close.
One man who called 911 pleaded for first responders to rush to the scene. Within a minute of the crash, he could be heard shouting to someone at the scene, asking if they were OK, then immediately yelled, “Oh my god! Oh my god!”
“Ma’am, it is bad,” he told the dispatcher.
He and at least one other witness could be heard on the line when they approached the car and saw the three teens inside.
“Don’t touch him. Don’t touch him,” the man told another witness.
3 teens killed in Pompano Beach crash were inseparable, family members say
Two women who were inside the Acura and another witness in a separate car described the white BMW speeding through a red light and then flipping. One of the women inside the Acura told a dispatcher her 5-year-old child was also with them. They were not injured.
“They were coming super fast … There’s a bunch of people trying to help them out of the car,” one of the women said. “It’s a really bad car accident. Extremely bad.”
The Acura was making a right turn out of a shopping plaza at Northeast 18th Street to travel south on North Federal Highway just before impact, the Sheriff’s Office said. The resulting damage appeared to indicate a “sideswipe-type impact” on the front driver’s side of the Acura.
“Detectives said the preliminary investigation reveals that excessive speed by the driver of the BMW is a possible contributing factor in the crash,” the Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.
Juan Alcocer, father of one of the three teens killed Monday night in a Pompano Beach car crash, visits the site of the crash, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel)