On May 8th, 2025, deputies responded to reports of a school crossing guard being struck by a vehicle in an active school zone. >> Coming in all right. >> Okay, perfect. Great. >> Do you need uh EMS? >> Pardon me? >> No, I I'm I'm I'm okay. I'm just shook up. >> 20 seconds too late. 5:40 a.m. is 10-12 for the complaint right now. Can I have your driver's license, please? >> Uh I don't have my license. I just have my ID. >> Yeah. >> So, what happened, Ms. Bowden? >> I was standing over there and I was going to come across the street and the car was coming, so I blew my whistle, put my sign out, and she just come flying up to the stop and she went through that like over the not the crosswalk sign, but the white, and I went stop. I says 20 miles an hour through here, and she goes, "Get out of my way." And I started walking and she started to go. Well, I didn't even have time to get out of the way, and she just kept coming at me, so I put my hands on the car like this, and she just kept pushing going forward and pushing me. And I was just like stop, and she just like turned her car and went the other way, you know, went around me. But and when she went down, then I I I was able to see what her license plate number was. >> So, did she Does she hit you? >> Yeah, she I mean, she came at me, and I put my hands down and she kept pressing forward and she hit my legs. >> You want to press charges? >> Yeah. >> You want to sign a statement? >> Definitely. >> I was walking out >> I was walking out in the street and she just kept coming flying and she crossed the white line. >> I'll get a table for you. >> I'll wait. >> I'm listening. >> So, she crossed the white line, but not into the crosswalk, and I told her to stop. miles an hour through here, and she goes, "Get out of my way." And I put my hands on the car cuz she kept pushing forward. And then she came through. She like hit like my thighs, not hard, but she was like trying to push me out of the way. And I go, "Stop!" And she goes, "Get out of my way!" And she turned and she went around me into the box. >> Ms. Gilbert, do you have a driver's license from Florida or out of Florida? >> a Florida. >> Can you just If you uh saw her vehicle, could you identify her? >> I think I could. She was young. She might have been late 20s, early 30s. Black. I don't know. I couldn't tell what her size was. >> Did you come down Did you see that car coming out from the school? >> No, it was coming down Superior Boulevard. >> Okay. >> Yeah. No, it didn't come out of the school cuz I saw her way back there. >> Okay. >> Yeah, cuz that's when I cuz I gave her plenty of time to see me coming, you know, and put my sign up and >> And your whistle's not working. >> Yeah. >> It doesn't matter if you use your sign or your whistle or not. The fact that she was yelling at you to get you out of the way means she saw you. And you're a pedestrian, so you have the right of way. And you're clearly marked as a a crossing guard. Fact. Where were you at when this occurred? Center of the intersection or in the crosswalk? >> one, papa. >> I was in the crosswalk. >> You're in the crosswalk. >> I was just coming out of Yeah, into the crosswalk. And she came flying up, and so I'd say I was probably >> So, by the way, you were >> 5 ft out into the crosswalk. >> I'm just going to take a picture of you so we can see what you're wearing. And that's your sign and stuff over there? >> Yeah. >> Uh it doesn't matter if it's a school zone or not. The fact that you have a person on foot in the crosswalk, >> Clearly marked, too. >> state statute says they have the right of way. >> Yeah. >> Regardless. >> I agree. >> And then to yell at them to get out of the way, and then deliberately run into them, >> Yeah. >> You want to prosecute, correct? >> Yeah. That's That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. I mean, she wouldn't even let me get out of the way. I was trying to get out of the way when I told her to stop, you know, and and she she just kept coming at me. So, I was afraid if I put I mean, I know I can't push the car away, but if I put my hands up, I was afraid she'd knock me over and then >> You did put your hands on the hood. Yeah. Perfect. I'm going to dust the car for for Friday. >> I got a witness, too. >> Yeah, who's witness? >> Uh one of the >> If you can give us better who they are, give me a statement for them. >> Uh she's from the county. They want that come They want that come um >> Which one? What color hair? >> A black female. She have a pepper spray today. >> Yes. >> Open here, bro. >> I remember her last name, though. I remember her mom. >> Uh you said it was true and then you were charging us for that. >> Yes. >> All right. So, we're going to try to find them. Um case number for the report my name and my phone number. Okay? We'll try to find them. If I can find them, they go to jail. >> Thank you. >> Um You said it was a black female, younger? >> I call you when I get >> Yeah, she is. Do you know what she was wearing? >> Roughly? You >> I want to say a white top, but I I can't be positive. >> Did she have her Did she have braids? >> Yeah, she had black No, she had just black hair and it was just kind of combed, you know. Nice. It wasn't braids or anything. It was just short from what I could tell. Had her bangs combed over. >> Right. What is today's date? >> September >> 14th. The driver is a black female. Did she have regular hair, no braids? >> Hello. >> Hi. >> So, I'm Deputy Snow. I'm assistant with this. So, what what happened with the phone call? >> Okay. She called and um I could tell she was a black woman. She was kind of panicking and I could see the numbers. I immediately wrote it down and I realized it was her. >> Okay. >> Um I did hear the other woman come in, but she spoke Spanish and told my co-worker what she had seen down here. It was one of our parents dropping off a child. >> Okay. >> And uh I did I do understand what she was saying. So, I did know something happened and we sent people out here. So, she calls and she says, "This happens all the time." She has her 3-year-old in the car and she's going She has to go to Apalachee every day take the child there. >> Mhm. >> And this woman has done this She's got it in for her. She's all the time trying to stop her every day for no reason. And she hit her car with her stop sign. >> Mhm. >> And so, she went around and said, "You didn't hit her with your car?" No. I said um she said, "Yeah." She got up and walked away. That's what she told me. >> Okay. >> And that she's got it in for her. That was it. Strictly not my fault, didn't do it. She hit my car with her stop sign. >> filling out a piece of paper just something to put on paper what you just told me? >> Okay. I did Well, it was a note I wrote. Okay. >> Okay. Yeah, I just on our form real quick. Let me get this set up for you. Let me see it real quick. >> Okay. I forgot The reason she called she wanted the cross walker uh the crossing guard's name. >> Okay. >> That's what it was. And I said, "Do you know they work for the sheriff's department?" Um and she's got the right to stop you. >> Mhm. >> And she >> at the end of the day even if there's no kids or anything like >> Yeah, and that's what she was saying. Nobody's around, blah blah blah. >> Well, the crossing guard like that somebody pedestrian in the crosswalk has right away. >> I know, absolutely. I mean, I tried to explain that to her. And from what I understood, she was sitting down because she was hit by the car. >> Yeah. >> Or that she pushed her with the car, or whatever. I don't know. >> Well, so the way the statute reads for battery, it's unwanted touch or strike. So, it doesn't matter it doesn't have to be like a hit. Like >> Right. >> that could be battery. >> Okay, got it. Yeah. Yeah. So, >> Yeah, no, I didn't do anything to her. She hit my car with her car with her sign. >> Yeah. And that was I >> You like to change it with you? >> Yeah, well, we have her phone number and stuff. We've talked to her during the talk to her. >> Well, she didn't give it to me. I said, "I'll report this for you." That's what I said to her. >> Thank you. All right. Can you do me a favor? Can you raise your right hand? >> I pledge. >> that everything is accurate and is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? >> I do. >> You? All right, I need your signature right here. >> Right here? >> Yep. And that's all I need from you. Thank you very much. >> All right. >> 1915 Lake. Be out of the fairgrounds side of us. Contact with the subject. Hello, Zenaida? Or Zate? What'd you say? >> Zenaida. >> Zenaida. Oh, 3030 like I said earlier, tell me what's So, now that I'm here with you, what's what happened? >> So, basically, I'm trying to make sure I'm not sitting in the ant hills. A lot of ants over here. Um So, basically, the lady who stopped me for months, I don't know if if it is cuz she has a problem with me or what it is, but every time it's nobody out there like crossing, cuz the only time she probably see me is on Thursdays, cuz that's when I'm off. I take my my daughter to school a little later at like 9:00, but I have to leave early cuz I live Her school's in the park. Only time she see me is on Thursdays. If if it's nobody outside, like it looks empty like that, she will purposely stop me for no reason. And I sit there for a good 5 10 minutes, just sitting in my car cuz there's nobody there. And then she'll let me go. So, today >> You have a dash cam or anything? >> No. >> No, okay. >> I wish I did. Cuz I was going to record it, but I was just, you know, I'm not going to do all that cuz that's a little extra. I'm driving, my baby's in the car, I don't have a camera, I'm not doing that. >> How old is your your child? >> She's only two. >> Two, okay. >> Who is that? She's only I don't even know who that is. She's only two. So, I'm not going to speed in a car with my baby. Like, that's one thing I'll never do. >> I'm not here for speeding. >> Yeah, I don't speed or anything. But, no, it's because she stopped me and she was like, "You need to stop your speeding." I'm just like, "I'm not speeding. I'm going 20 mph. That's speeding." >> And she literally like Can I demonstrate? >> Sure. >> But, so she put on my hazards like First, she was right here when she told me to stop. Then she walked up to my car and it was like this, "You need to stop." And I'm just like, "Why are you in my car?" So, I backed it up and I put it in the park. And she's walking closer to my car. Every time I try, you know, back up to avoid her, she's coming closer. She parks with my car in park. So, she's on this side of my car. My car already been damaged from October cuz some somebody did >> Yeah, I can see I can see that's that's older damage. >> Yes, somebody did it right on my car. So, she was standing like this, trying to point at me. And I'm just like, "Can you please move? Like, I'm just trying to take my my baby to school. Can you please move?" She did not move. But, mind you the road over there, like, you can see how big it is. She's literally standing right here on the side of my car. She's literally a step away from the sidewalk. She's staring on my car and hit my car. So, I what I do, I back out of I back in reverse and I speed past her because now you're hitting my I'm not doing anything to you. I'm in the car, didn't even get out >> She's hitting it with what? >> Her stop sign. >> Where? >> She hit it like this. She hit it. I don't know if there's any marks, but she hit my car right here. Like right here. She hit it with the stop sign. >> Okay. >> I was like, "You need to stop. Like you're hitting my car." >> Okay. >> So, I sped around and I wanted to tell her to stop. I was speeding. I was speeding. This school here, I don't know if if they have a certain hour or not, but you can clearly tell that everybody's in school and nobody's out. There's no kids, no adults, no nothing. >> Was the yellow lights still flashing on the um lights? >> No. >> No? >> No. >> They weren't? >> No. When I was there, no they weren't. But, I was still, you know, trying to be >> Well, I'm going to let you know, when I went back through there and talked to her, all the yellow lights were working. And when I was here earlier or when I was in the area at 7:45, all the lights were on. So, they they stay on constantly. They don't shut off for background. So, before the incident occurred, lights were working. After the incident occurred, they were still flashing. So, so that tells me that they were still flashing when you went through the incident occurred. So, for you to tell me that they weren't flashing is false. >> Yeah, but I'm saying I was still doing the speed limit. I wasn't speeding I wasn't speeding or anything. >> I'm not here for speeding. >> Yeah. But, she she hit my car. I was I was in the I don't know like I was before the line of the stop sign. >> Okay. >> So, I was just sitting there. She walked up to my car. >> Do you have your ID on you? >> Yes, I do. >> Just so I can verify exactly who you are. Are there any weapons in the vehicle? >> But, the harassment's been going on for months. >> Okay. Why haven't you contacted somebody at the school about that? >> I didn't know where to contact them. I asked my mom about it. She was like, you could probably call the school, but I never had time to. >> Okay. >> I was so early. >> Okay. All right. So, what's going to happen now is based on witness statements and everything, you are going to go to jail for aggravated battery of a motor vehicle. Okay. >> Can I at least put my phone in my >> Yep, we'll let your mom come out and get all that stuff. Is there a reason you want me to go with jail with you? >> My phone? >> You want your phone to get out, huh? Which Which one is that? The green one or the one on the hood? >> It's the one on the hood. But why am I going to jail? >> 19-15 like Miss Brown's 2:15. >> Can I unlock it to call her dad for me? >> I'm going to let her your your mom know. You can move over here. >> But why am I going to jail? >> Told you aggravated battery of a motor vehicle. >> But I didn't do that with my car. >> That's not what all the witnesses are saying. Your statement does not match what our independent witness said. >> What did the witness say? >> Witness said you drove up when you were in the crosswalk. >> I wasn't in the crosswalk. Can you at least bring me the door back to my mom, please? >> Hello, this is Officer Miller. >> I'm scared. >> Yeah, I'll let you know um How do you say it? Zena? >> Yeah. >> She's going to go to jail for aggravated battery of a motor vehicle. After speaking with the witnesses and her, um it's found that she's she ran into the uh crossing guard intentionally with her vehicle disregarding the crossing guard's um orders to stop. Um so, she'll be going to Lake County Jail. She'll have no bond. She'll have to appear in front of a judge. And then the judge will issue her a bond amount. Okay? >> My god, are you serious, sir? So, her word means nothing? >> Well, I have the victim's statement. I have an independent witness that told me what they saw. >> guard trying to stop her for if you just >> idea. That is a It doesn't matter. Crossing guard is pedestrian in the crosswalk. Pedestrians have the right of way in the state of Florida while in the crosswalk. Okay. Regardless of they're crossing guard or just a kid or just some random person, they're in the crosswalk, they have the right of way. Um So, because of that, because the independent witness and what they told me and what they observed and then what she told me and what she told me I can confirm is not true. With some of the parts she told me as as far as what was going on. Uh that's why she's going to jail. >> Okay. >> Okay? >> Thank you. >> She'll appear in front of a judge and then the judge will issue a bond. She'll be allowed to make phone calls. She wants you also to be able to lock up her car and get some of her stuff out of her car. Sit in the driveway. >> Is the keys in the car and everything? Do I keep the license? >> I keep the license and her and her phone. She'll have her phone there. >> So, she's in the car now? >> my car here. >> Can I come out? >> Absolutely. If you want to talk to her, you can. >> You can only do it from the window. I didn't hit that lady, so and she said she had witnesses and all that. It was nobody out there. It was only two people like three streets down the road. >> Okay, they're going to suspend your license, suspend your car insurance and everything and it'll be a real bad life with a [ __ ] record. >> Okay, I understand that, but the lady been the lady's been >> and >> The lady been >> We don't even know. You're going you're going to jail. It's not a good place to be and they're suspending that. If If If Maurice is not home, even get you out. >> If If Maurice and aunt calls my phone, just tell them that um tell them what happened. I already told them what happened before. >> Is it programmed under Maurice? >> Yes. >> And is it programmed under aunt? >> Yes, it has like a red like rain drop next to aunt thing. But if they call, just tell them what happened. >> From this point on, I wasn't speeding, but it don't matter. I don't know what happened. I was >> hit my car when I stopped sign. >> that they're nice enough to just let me come out here and talk to you. I don't know what happened. I was not there. But whatever happened, you better let all of this be a learning experience. Because you're >> been harassing >> a [ __ ] record. >> The lady's been harassing me for months. >> Well, and you should have been done called the police and you should have been done reported it. Cuz now it's escalated to this. And what you're saying doesn't even seem to matter. You better hope that the judge >> I'm black. I know that it's just like >> Okay, well, you can say all of that in the in the in front of the judge. >> I know. I'm not talking to nobody else. >> Hopefully, you will be able to see a judge in the morning. They will give you a bond. >> You know what I'm talking about? >> to have to spend the night in in jail. >> You're going to have to call my job. >> And you better hope that they give give them boys give you some money to get you out. >> She was charged with aggravated battery with a motor vehicle. Disclaimer, all individuals mentioned are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.