{"id":199146,"date":"2026-03-20T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199146\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:19:08","slug":"iu-student-graduate-killed-in-miami-beach-hit-and-run-crash-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199146\/","title":{"rendered":"IU student, graduate killed in Miami Beach hit-and-run crash; driver arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adan Negron-Morris, 42, has been charged with two counts of reckless vehicular homicide and two counts of leaving the scene of a crash causing death.<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A current Indiana University student and an IU graduate were killed in a hit-and-run crash in south Florida Wednesday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Adan Negron-Morris, 42, has been charged with two counts of reckless vehicular homicide and two counts of leaving the scene of a crash causing death, according to online court records.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Beach Police Department said Negron-Morris was driving a black Nissan Sentra and was witnessed driving without headlights in a reckless manner near 71st Street and Collins Avenue in the city around 9 p.m. March 18, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-in-miami-beach-hit-and-run-that-killed-2-pedestrians-police-say\/3783448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBC Miami reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That car passed a police officer, who attempted to respond as multiple 911 calls were also being received about the reckless driving, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said as Negron-Morris entered the intersection of 73rd Street and Collins Avenue, he struck two pedestrians, then stopped a block away and fled into a nearby drug store.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police where Negron-Morris was, and he was taken into custody and then to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Both pedestrians were taken to a local hospital, where they were pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-in-miami-beach-hit-and-run-that-killed-2-pedestrians-police-say\/3783448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBC Miami<\/a> reports they were identified as Sarisa Kongduang and Greatgomon Laowatdhanasapya, a current and former student at Indiana University.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest report obtained by NBC Miami said a DUI investigation revealed Negron-Morris showed signs of impairment, but he refused to give a blood sample, though &#8220;police ordered hospital staff to obtain a forced blood draw,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-in-miami-beach-hit-and-run-that-killed-2-pedestrians-police-say\/3783448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the station said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Negron-Morris later told police he suffers from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression and intended to take his own life by crashing the car.<\/p>\n<p>Negron-Morris told police he recalled &#8220;closing his eyes, pressing the accelerator, and hoping to die,&#8221; according to the crash report. He also allegedly told police he&#8217;s had marijuana and an unknown medication provided by his girlfriend the day of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records do not currently list a next court date for Negron-Morris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adan Negron-Morris, 42, has been charged with two counts of reckless vehicular homicide and two counts of leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-199146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}