Driver at center of fatal BSO chase faces over a dozen new charges, records show
Sean Holder has sat in the Broward County Main Jail for more than a month on murder, grand theft and battery charges after he allegedly stole an SUV, leading to a pursuit that ended with an innocent motorist dying in a crash with a BSO deputy.
Now, the Broward State Attorney’s Office has tacked on more than a dozen more criminal charges Thursday for actions Holder, 30, took during the fatal Feb. 16 incident.
Holder is facing 33 charges, up from the original five he was given when he was arrested. They include 16 counts of aggravated fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer; one count of leaving the scene of a crash involving a death, and three counts of reckless driving causing property damage.
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The Feb. 16 chase began minutes before midnight. Margate police officers were on the lookout for a stolen gray Jeep Cherokee. A BSO deputy spotted it, being driven by Holder, and followed it to a Flanigan’s, an arrest report read.
Holder sped up and crashed through a closed gate in the restaurant’s parking lot. The chase began with a BSO helicopter overhead.
Holder would eventually reverse and crash into BSO Deputy Robert Acosta’s cruiser. This would trigger dozens of deputies to swarm the area and join the chase.
During the pursuit, a deputy’s patrol car and a vehicle not involved in the chase crashed into each other. Paramedics took the deputy, the driver of the other car and a passenger to a hospital, BSO said. Ronald Wilbert Wilson, the driver, later died, six days before his 74th birthday.
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