FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A husband and wife are opening up and sharing their story days after they were injured when, authorities said, an armed robbery suspect slammed into their SUV head-on during a pursuit involving Broward Sheriff’s deputies in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaking with 7News on Friday, Juan Osorio and Gina Marie gave their account of Tuesday evening’s head-on collision.
“It was a very scary scene. I’m just glad we are alive,” said Osorio.
Marie she was in a daze in the immediate aftermath of the wreck.
“I don’t remember anything. I work, I do everything, but I don’t remember anything about that,” she said.
Minutes before impact, the couple and their 2-year-old son Maximiliano were heading home from Home Depot in their Kia Sorento.
The family was traveling westbound along Sunrise Boulevard, near Interstate 95, when Osorio said he saw a car speeding out of control toward him.
“We see, like, some car going super fast, like fleeing, and there was a bunch of cops,” he said, “and he actually went over the median. It was drizzling.”
In that moment, Osorio said, there was nothing he could do to avoid the wrong-way driver.
“I thought about going to the right, but he might push me off the interpass, thought about going left, then he might hit my kid in the back who was on the right, so I just went forward,” he said. “He hit us head-on going like – I don’t know how fast, but it was pretty fast.”
“He” is 36-year-old Cedrick Sconyers. BSO detectives said they were trying to pull him over because he was driving a car believed to have been used in a robbery earlier.
Investigators said Sconyers didn’t stop.
A prosecutor described the pursuit during the suspect’s court appearance.
“First he was fleeing from law enforcement on I-95. Then on Sunrise Boulevard, he tries to flee from law enforcement driving into oncoming traffic,” said the prosecutor.
That’s when, detectives said, Sconyers slammed into Osorio and his family.
“The impact happens, like the air bags hit me, and then I turn around, and like, [Gina] is screaming, and her face is bloody, and then my kid had blood on his face,” said Osorio.
The family said Maximiliano cracked his skull, and Osorio needed stitches on his leg.
Paramedics rushed all three victims to the hospital. They have since been released and are recovering at home.
Marie is covered in bruises from the crash.
“All my body hurts,” she said.
BSO deputies said they had done a PIT maneuver in an attempt to prevent Sconyers from returning to I-95 prior to the crash.
“Apparently, they had been chasing him from, like, [Miami-Dade County] to Broward, because there were already 20 cops on the scene and ambulances as soon as it happened,” said Osorio.
Sconyers was arrested, and as of Friday night, he remains in jail. He faces a list of charges, including aggravated fleeing with injury or damage and armed robbery.
The suspect is in trouble for more than just running from deputies.
“And then you have a warrant for possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, and then also possession of a firearm with an altered serial number,” said the prosecutor during Sconyers’ bond hearing.
As for Osorio, he said he is just thankful that he and his family lived to tell the tale.
“Just getting rid of the pain, like, my knee hurts really bad. Just, you know, getting back on our feet,” he said.
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