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6-year-old Killed By Pick-up Truck Driver

November 11, 2005

The driver of the truck involved in a crash on Interstate 4 that resulted in the death of a 6-year-old girl has been arrested.

Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Larry Coggins said Luis Perez-Amezcua, 27, of 6414 Casitas Court in Tampa had a suspended license and should not have been driving. Troopers arrested Perez-Amezcua at 9 p.m. at Tampa General Hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries from the crash.

Perez-Amezcua, who told troopers he works as a radio disc jockey in Bartow, was driving a 2003 GMC Sierra pickup truck west on I-4 in the center lane east of 50th Street at 1:45 p.m. when he sped up and rammed into the back of a Pontiac driven by 64-year-old Jalane Stone, according to a Highway Patrol report.

Nicole Stone, 6, of St. Petersburg was buckled into the back seat. Her father, 37-year-old Brian Stone, was a passenger in the front seat, according to the report. Nicole was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where she died, Coggins said. Her father and grandmother were not injured.

Perez-Amezcua was jailed on one count of driving with a suspended license during a fatal crash, a felony, records show. Coggins said his license had been suspended because he failed to pay two traffic tickets. Bail was set at $10,000.