{"id":380853,"date":"2026-08-25T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380853\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:50:09","slug":"suspect-in-casselberry-crash-that-killed-2-people-back-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380853\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Casselberry crash that killed 2 people back in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect in Casselberry crash that killed UCF professor, his brother back in court<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/793f47c8-6ef6-41d4-b0de-fb642812c23f_1774634837.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Madilyn Destefano\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Marquavious Wheaton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/state-seeks-life-sentence-deadly-casselberry-crash\/71949634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused of killing two people in a high-speed crash in Casselberry last month<\/a>, appeared in court Monday for a probation violation hearing.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Wheaton is charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence in the case.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The crash happened on July 7 at the intersection of 17-92 and Sunnytown Road.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Officials said the crash occurred after police attempted to pull Wheaton over, and he sped off.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">He eventually crashed at speeds agents said were well over 100 mph.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Christopher and Tyler Marier were both killed in the crash.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Wheaton is scheduled to return to court on Sept. 14 for a trial on the probation violation charge as the crash investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspect in Casselberry crash that killed UCF professor, his brother back in court Marquavious Wheaton, accused of killing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1324,1183,137710,137709,7740,8219,89135,3361,140658,2772,139,141,140,992,152843,11878,7917,152844,152845],"class_list":["post-380853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-brother","tag-case","tag-casselberry-crash","tag-christopher","tag-count","tag-court","tag-fields","tag-life-sentence","tag-marquavious-wheaton","tag-official","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-people","tag-probation-violation-hearing","tag-prosecutor","tag-second-degree-murder","tag-sunnytown-road","tag-tyler-marier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380853","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=380853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}