Watch my eyes. The water, the water. We live in a dome. This is how I see.  What did you take?  Tootsie pink pink pink pink pink. See drugs. Go in the white car. Go in the car, my phone. My phone. A I. Oh my gosh, it’s the curse of the white house. Where?  Are they going to bring me to them?  I don’t know.

 To me?  Right now. They’re coming now. So, you need to relax.  This is 24-year-old Macy Lathers and she has somehow walked away from a crash of her own making, one that left others dead, but she is not crying. She is not shaking. If anything, she looks like she is somewhere else entirely. This is the chilling case of an Instagram influencer and model who turned a routine Saturday morning commute into a death sentence for strangers she had never met.

 And every detail you’re about to see has been verified through court records, trial testimony, and footage recorded that morning. If you have never heard this story before, prepare yourself because what happened at that intersection in Miami will challenge everything you think you know about club nightlife, recklessness, and what someone will risk when they believe the rules were never written for them.

At 6:45 on the morning of Saturday, August 10th, 2024, Macy Lathers was behind the wheel of a white Mercedes-Benz sedan traveling southbound on North Miami Avenue in downtown Miami. The speed limit on that stretch was 30 mph. By the time the Mercedes reached the intersection at 8th Street, it was moving at 78 mph.

 She ran the red light and her Mercedes struck a black Range Rover driven by a 24-year-old man. The force of that collision sent both vehicles into a silver Suzuki sedan carrying three people. Abraham Molina was behind the wheel. His fiance, Juanita Hernandez, was in the front passenger seat and their friend, Jesus Rubio, was sitting in the back.

 All three of them were simply on their way to work that morning with no idea their lives were about to change in an instant. Jesus Rubio, who was seated in the rear, was killed at the scene. Abraham Molina was trapped inside the wreckage. He was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital, but it was already too late.

 He died while receiving treatment for his injuries. Juanita Hernandez and the Range Rover driver were far luckier. Both survived with injuries. Lathers was also injured. She was eventually transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment. But before the ambulance arrived, while two men lay dying in the wreckage around her, witnesses noticed her doing something that would define every court appearance that followed.

 She was trying to leave. Surveillance video captured Lathers in the moments after the crash, walking away with her hoodie pulled up over her face. She had not called 911. She had not checked on the people in the other vehicles. Bystanders who saw the collision rushed toward the wreckage to help.

 Several of them noticed Lathers walking away. They confronted her. They physically brought her back. Six days later, that moment was one of the first things Judge Glazer addressed. If it wasn’t for the citizens or witnesses nearby who stopped her, she would have completely fled. Miami-Dade police arrived within minutes. What they found was a scene of unbelievable ruin.

 He dead. He dead in the car.  He totally dead.  No, no, no. Hold on a second.  He smashed.  Señora, tú estás mareando.  Oh. Look at me, buddy.  Okay, that’s See, ahora viene el rescue is going to take care of it.  No, no.  Why would you say that? Okay. Body camera footage captured Lathers face down on the pavement, topless, screaming.

 Hey, hey, hey. Chill out. Chill out.  Relax.  Chill out.  Relax.  Lathers on the corner.  Are you okay?  Lathers on the corner. Get Lathers. Get Lathers. I know they’re injured and heaven. a heart attack. I know I did the crystal. 42 10 24 1 9 right now. Okay. Herkimer diamond in New York.

 Herkimer diamond in New York. Herkimer diamond in New York. Herkimer diamond in New York.  to get some help now. Calm down.  Oh my god. Herkimer diamond in New York.  Calm down. Relax. Relax.  Where are they going to bring me to?  Hm?  Are they going to bring me to the hospital? Who do you mean? They’re coming now. So, you need to relax.

Stay like that, okay? Just stay like how I told you, okay?  After being strapped to a gurney, officers tried to get basic information from her. What came back was not coherent.  What’s your name?  in the coffin gold. Put me in the coffin gold.  What’s your name?  Macy.  Macy?  Macy Macy Macy Laters.

 Macy? What’s your last name, Macy? Macy, what’s your last name?  Laters.  Laters?  It’s Laters.  Laters?  L A T E R S. The answer is numerology. Look up numerology. Look it up. Online numerology. What’s going on?  Macy, do you know where you are?  No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m on I’m on Earth.  Where?  Earth.

 Now, where?  Earth.  The roof?  Earth.  Earth? Yeah, we are all on Earth. Do you know where you are? What city? Where?  Oh, Miami.  Miami. Do you know what happened? Do you remember what happened?  Then one officer asked a simple question.  Were you taking any drugs?  Yeah.

 Toosie pink pink pink toosie pink toosie pink go go now. Go go now.  What did you take?  Toosie pink pink pink pink pink. Toosie drugs. Go in the white car. Go in the car. My phone. My phone AI. Oh my gosh, it’s the curse of the White House.  Miami Police Detective Marvin Lopez later testified at the pre-trial detention hearing that Narcan had been administered to Lathers at the scene, a drug used to reverse an opioid overdose.

He also testified that when investigators tried speaking with her again, 12 hours later at the hospital, she had no memory of the crash. Not the impact, not the victims, not even the moments immediately after. The defense would later point to that total memory loss as evidence of how severely impaired she had been.

Prosecutors saw it differently. A person who cannot remember a crash is not the same as a person who cannot remember choosing to drive. And it is certainly not the same as a person who gets behind the wheel while fully aware of the condition they are in. Then the toxicology report came back, and it changed everything.

The report from Jackson Memorial Hospital confirmed that ketamine and MDMA were both present in Lathers system at the time of the crash. To understand why that mattered, you first need to understand what she had taken. Tusi, also known as pink cocaine, is not actually cocaine. The name itself is misleading.

 It is a mixture of ketamine, MDMA, and other psychoactive substances pressed into a powder, dyed pink, scented to make it more appealing, and sold inside nightlife circles as something fashionable. A 2023 study in the National Library of Medicine described it as a new ketamine-based drug mixture. That same year, authorities identified it as the number one drug seized at Miami International Airport.

 By 2024, it had become one of the most common party drugs in South Florida. It was no longer something rare. It was no longer underground. It was everywhere. Law enforcement has since linked it directly to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that US authorities have been tracking across the country. In 2025, investigators in New York seized pink cocaine alongside dozens of firearms in a trafficking case tied to the organization.

 The same drug later surfaced in the federal case against Sean Combs in Manhattan, where a former assistant testified about obtaining tusi for parties. And when former One Direction singer Liam Payne fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina in 2024, early toxicology findings reported pink cocaine in his system. By the time this crash happened, 2C had been moving through Miami’s club scene for years.

 Ketamine alone can cause dissociation, a complete separation from the body and the world around it. It can distort time, space, and judgment. When it is mixed with MDMA and whatever else happens to be in a batch, the effects can become even more unpredictable. Miami-Dade medical examiner had already documented multiple deaths linked to 2C between 2020 and 2024, long before Macy Lathers ever got behind that wheel.

 And the toxicology results did not raise a new question. They simply confirmed what Lathers had already told officers on the street in the minutes after the crash, before she understood the legal weight of what she was saying. The defense argued her drug-induced state explained her behavior entirely, that she was not in meaningful control of herself that morning.

Prosecutors said the state she was in was a deliberate choice, one she made before she ever got behind the wheel. And that contrast, conscious choice versus incapacity, would drive every legal argument in the case. But to understand how a 24-year-old ends up behind the wheel of a Mercedes at 78 mph, you have to understand who she was before that intersection.

Macy Marie Lathers grew up in Fort Plain, New York, a small village in upstate Montgomery County with a population under 2,000. It was a place with no obvious connection to the Miami she would later build her image around. By her mid-20s, she had relocated to Miami Gardens and enrolled with two modeling agencies.

 She built an Instagram presence with around 11,000 followers, not a massive account by any measure, but one carefully curated to project something much larger. She was also a college graduate. Her defense attorney confirmed that in court when arguing that she was not a flight risk. The image she built, the luxury life, the Miami model persona, the polished Instagram grid, was exactly the kind of identity that commands attention in South Florida’s nightlife world.

 And it was precisely in that world that Toosie circulates most freely. But behind that image was a legal reality prosecutors would later argue told a very different story. Her driver’s license had been suspended since January 2024. She was legally prohibited from operating a vehicle. Yet on the morning of August 10th, she climbed into that white Mercedes and drove anyway. Keep that detail in mind.

Because the question of what Lathers knew about her suspended license, about her physical condition, about every specific choice she made before she put that car on the road would run through every court proceeding that followed. At her first bond hearing on August 16th, 2024, Lathers appeared before a Judge Glazer.

 The toxicology report had not yet returned. The vehicle data had not yet been retrieved. The most serious charges had not yet been filed. And she was already facing eight felonies, two counts of DUI causing death or serious bodily injury, two counts of vehicular homicide, two counts of reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, one count of leaving the scene of a fatal crash, one count of driving with a suspended license causing death, eight felony charges.

 Before the investigation was even complete, prosecutors argued for a $500,000 bond. They called her a flight risk. They told the court it looked very likely she would be charged with DUI manslaughter once the toxicology came back. Her defense attorney pushed back. He called the $500,000 request unreasonable. He told the court she was a college graduate, that she had been living in Florida for almost 2 years, that there was nothing to suggest she would run.

 But the judge was unimpressed.  She’s an absolute danger to the community based on killing two for driving when she shouldn’t have been in a car, and she’s clearly impaired based on her statements.  She cited the statements at the scene, the vomiting, the attempted departure from the crash site. She noted that bystanders, ordinary citizens with no law enforcement obligation, were the only reason Lathers had not successfully fled.

 Glazer set the bond at $140,000, not the $500,000 prosecutors had demanded. The decision drew criticism from victim advocates and the families of the deceased. But Glazer exercised her authority with conditions. House arrest, GPS ankle monitor, no driving under any circumstances, and mandatory drug testing. Lathers posted the bond. She went home.

 She was back in court 6 days later. On August 22nd, 2024, Lathers appeared before senior judge Rosa Figarola. A search warrant had been executed on the Mercedes-Benz’s black box-style event data recorders. The numbers that investigators had suspected were now official court records. 57 mph 5 seconds before impact. Accelerator at 100% 78 mph at the moment of collision on a 30 mph street through a red light.

 Two new counts of reckless vehicular homicide. Two new counts of reckless driving causing serious bodily injury. Four additional charges were stacked on top of the eight she already faced. Her defense attorney argued for a modest bond increase. He told the court she was not a flight risk. She had complied with house arrest.

 She had not violated any conditions. He asked for a $20,000 bond on the new charges. Prosecutors pushed back. The case wasn’t standard. She had killed two people. Figarola set a combined bond of $26,000 on the new charges and tightened the house arrest conditions. Lathers remained at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center while arrangements were finalized. The case was not static.

It was expanding. Each warrant that came back produced a new wave of charges. Each wave produced a new courtroom confrontation. Then the DUI manslaughter charges dropped. On September 10th, based on the toxicology results, prosecutors formally charged Lathers with two counts of DUI manslaughter. One for each man who died.

Under Florida law, DUI manslaughter carries a minimum mandatory sentence of 4 years and a maximum of 30 years per count. That is up to 60 years on those two charges alone, stacked on top of eight other felony counts. On September 16th, Lathers sat in front of Judge Pooler. She held her own head in her hands.

 She rocked back and forth while prosecutors played the footage of her walking away from the crash with her hoodie up and the body camera footage of her face down on the pavement telling officers she had died, that she was from the future, that the answer was in the crystal. Prosecutors walked through the vehicle data.

 They presented the toxicology findings. They played both clips in full. Judge Pooler looked at all of it and she made her decision. “I think she’s extremely dangerous.” Lathers was ordered held without bond, but there was something prosecutors were still working to access, something that could change the shape of the entire case.

Macy Lathers’ iPhone In March 2025, Miami-Dade prosecutors appeared before a judge on Lathers’ motion to have her electronic devices returned. The motion was denied. Judge Samuel Sloan ruled that her iPhone and two iPads had evidentiary value and would remain in the custody of law enforcement.

 Prosecutors confirmed they were actively working to break through the iPhone’s passcode protection. Their stated goal, to determine what the device revealed about Lathers’ whereabouts and activities in the hours before the crash on the morning of August 10th. That detail matters. The crash happened at 6:45 in the morning on a Saturday.

 Tusi is a drug associated with late night and nightclub use. Prosecutors were not just asking what Lathers had taken, they were asking where she had been. How long had she been in that state? And whether anyone around her that night had knowledge of what was about to happen. The question was not whether she had used the drug. That was already established.

 The question was the full chronology of the night before. The question was whether this was a woman who had knowingly chosen to get behind the wheel in that condition and then chose to drive on a suspended license through downtown Miami at 78 mph anyway. Abraham Molina left behind a 16-year-old son who still grapples with the loss of his father.

His mother lives in Nicaragua. She suffers from Parkinson’s disease. She had been financially dependent on the income Abraham sent home. His fiance, Juanita Hernandez, set up a GoFundMe after the crash because she could no longer work due to her injuries. Lathers entered a plea of not guilty on all charges.

 She remains held without bond at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County while prosecutors continue building their case. The 10 felony charges she faces could carry decades behind bars. Two counts of DUI manslaughter alone carry a minimum of 4 years and a maximum of 30 years on each count.

 The reckless vehicular homicide charges, the reckless driving charges, the leaving the scene charge, and the suspended license charge each carry additional penalties of their own.