{"id":349143,"date":"2026-07-22T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:25:08","slug":"cousin-of-woman-killed-after-jumping-on-suv-hood-im-just-thinking-its-all-a-bad-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349143\/","title":{"rendered":"Cousin of woman killed after jumping on SUV hood: \u2018I\u2019m just thinking it\u2019s all a bad dream\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A family is searching for answers after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/21\/woman-dies-after-jumping-on-hood-of-mans-car-falling-off-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/21\/woman-dies-after-jumping-on-hood-of-mans-car-falling-off-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say\/\">death of a 29-year-old woman in Fort Lauderdale<\/a>. Video shows Essence Landers jumping on the hood of a car as it was moving and then falling off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/22\/prima-de-mujer-que-murio-tras-subirse-al-capo-de-una-suv-solo-pienso-que-todo-es-una-pesadilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/22\/prima-de-mujer-que-murio-tras-subirse-al-capo-de-una-suv-solo-pienso-que-todo-es-una-pesadilla\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident occurred around 2 a.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of Southeast 32nd Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Landers and the driver, with whom she had a prior argument, were acquainted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the man attempted to leave the hotel in his vehicle, but Landers jumped on the hood of the SUV and fell off as the vehicle was in motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t even say, but I know she didn\u2019t know that was going to happen to her,\u201d Landers\u2019 cousin, Letizia Robbins, said. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t thinking that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said she was critically injured and the man stopped his car and called 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Landers was then transported by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue medics to Broward Health Medical Center, where she died, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am going to be her voice because she confided in me with a lot of things,\u201d Robbins said. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t just my little cousin; she was like my little sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Robbins said she believes, after watching video of the incident, that the man \u201cdeliberately ran her over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSo he has to pay. He has to go to jail,\u201d she said. \u201cIt shows it clear as day. He ran her over. It wasn\u2019t an accident that we thought it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She added, \u201cI don\u2019t know him personally, so I can\u2019t say (who he was). But it was somebody she was dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Robbins said the man was a romantic partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No charges have been filed in the case, but Landers\u2019 family is now left with questions and pain and feeling they are living a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m just thinking it\u2019s all a bad dream,\u201d Robbins said. \u201cIt\u2019s not real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale police said their investigating into the matter is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A family is searching for answers after the death of a 29-year-old woman in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-349143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349143","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=349143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}