{"id":377925,"date":"2026-08-21T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377925\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:34:09","slug":"cape-woman-convicted-of-vehicular-homicide-in-street-racing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377925\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape woman convicted of vehicular homicide in street racing case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cape Coral woman was found guilty of vehicular homicide, a second-degree felony, in a street racing case dating back to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Anastasiya Zadorozhna, 29, was street racing when her vehicle crashed into another car, killing a 52-year-old man. Assistant State Attorneys Martin Stark and Andreas Gardiner, of the Homicide Unit, prosecuted the case and won the guilty verdict following a Lee County trial.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ZADOROZHNA-ANASTASIYA-mug-240x300.jpeg\"  alt=\"article image\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption\">Anastasiya Zadorozhna<\/p>\n<p>The fatal crash happened on July 19, 2024, on a portion of Pine Island Road in Cape Coral. <\/p>\n<p>Evidence introduced at trial was video from a camera on Nicholas Parkway and Pine Island Road which showed two cars traveling at a high speed, racing each other. Chase Magruder, 23, also of Cape Coral, was the driver of the second car. In the video, a short distance away, Zadorozhna\u2019s car collided with the victim\u2019s vehicle after being hit by Magruder\u2019s car.<\/p>\n<p>Magruder hit Zadorozhna\u2019s car when she drove into his lane. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Magruder-Chase-MUG-240x300.jpeg\"  alt=\"article image\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption\">Chase Magruder<\/p>\n<p>Magruder pled straight to the court on his charge of vehicular homicide. It was not a plea agreement but rather his right to enter a plea straight to the judge for sentencing. <\/p>\n<p>Magruder was sentenced on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Zadorozhna will be sentenced on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cape Coral woman was found guilty of vehicular homicide, a second-degree felony, in a street racing case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-377925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377925","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=377925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}