A Georgia woman faces a new manslaughter charge in the death of her sister, who died after she was shot in a car in Miami Beach earlier this month.
Taniyria Akias Holt, 24, is in Miami-Dade jail on murder charges with a deadly weapon charge, records show she faces a $ 25,000 bond.
The shooting occurred on the night of June 6, when Holt and her sister, Dre’Naya Ponder, and two other women were riding in a Jaguar down the Alton Road ramp heading north from the Julia Tuttle Causeway, Miami police officials said. Beach.
Holt, who is from Atlanta, told investigators that the group of women was recording themselves with their cell phones but that she was using a firearm owned by another woman when she mistakenly shot Ponder.
Holt “pushed the firearm and observed the ejection of a projectile. Thinking that the weapon was free of bullets, he went to pass the weapon to [la víctima] but he accidentally shot him, “says the case report.
Holt was initially arrested for culpable negligence and improper display of a firearm, but now faces a manslaughter charge after Ponder died of injuries from the weapon.
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