FDLE Report: Double Fatal DUI Crash Suspect Tests Negative For Alcohol, Positive For Drugs

March 1, 2019

A Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab report showed there was no alcohol found in the system of the man accused in a Kingsfield Road crash that claimed the life of two siblings in January.

But Hunter Black’s blood test did have a positive report for narcotics. Alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax, and Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and 11-Nor-9-carboxy-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, both which can be linked to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, were present, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Antoinette Marie McCoy, 22,  and her brother, 15-year old Tate High School student Sean Banks, died at local hospitals shortly after the crash.

A Florida Highway Patrol report details the accounts of two crash witnesses. One reported a driver he was able to identify as Black was driving all over the roadway and was having trouble maintaining his lane in a curve. After the crash, he said he helped Black out of his vehicle. The second witness told the FHP he witnessed Black’s vehicle cross the center line as the collision occurred.

A Florida Highway Patrol sergeant that responded to Sacred Heart reported that Black was showing signs of impairment with slurred speech and trouble staying awake, according to an arrest report. A FHP trooper said Black had slurred speech, was unable to provide proper information and had “a white crusty substance on his lips.” Court records indicate a “green leafy substance” was found in the vehicle driven by Black.

“While attempting to talk to Black he seemed as if he was having issues understanding what was being said to him. When he attempted to speak he had very slurred speech to where it was sometimes difficult to understand him,” a Florida Highway Patrol trooper wrote in an arrest report. “Black was also unable to sign his paperwork to the point where a nurse advised him to just sign an X on his paperwork.”

Black was arrested after marking the discharge paper work.

In the days following the wreck, a  judge signed a search warrant for Black’s Apple iPhone and “to use reasonable force if necessary” to require Black to unlock the phone with his thumb print to obtain information regarding the offense and Black’s whereabouts leading up to the traffic crash. A search warrant was also issued for information regarding Black’s phone use and location from his cellular provider.

After executing a search warrant for the vehicle Black was driving, troopers reported they took two unspecified paper receipts, data from the event data recorder, multiple swabs from the interior of the vehicle, two hairs and four airbags.

The FHP said Black had been involved in another crash before the fatal wreck when he ran off East Kingsfield Road and struck a tree near Berrydale Road. He then made a U-turn and traveled back west on Kingsfield Road a short distance before the fatal crash occurred.

Black remains in the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $1 million. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison.

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Comments

6 Responses to “FDLE Report: Double Fatal DUI Crash Suspect Tests Negative For Alcohol, Positive For Drugs”

  1. Williewonka on March 2nd, 2019 2:00 pm

    Black murdered 2 innocent people. Black should be executed but the liberal judicial system does not allow that. Life in prison should apply. 30 years is a joke.

  2. Rasheed Jackson on March 1st, 2019 7:59 pm

    A reckless disregard for life should carry the same penalty as intent. Either way the person has no concern for another persons life and should be treated with the same level of discernment.
    He may not have intended to harm anyone but he didn’t care if he did.

  3. Molino Resident on March 1st, 2019 12:48 pm

    Only 30 years because it’s vehicular manslaughter, not murder. There has to be an intent to kill to carry a higher charge.

  4. Brittany on March 1st, 2019 12:34 pm

    30 YEARS????
    That’s all for 2 lives!?!
    I am stunned!

  5. Msawyer on March 1st, 2019 9:42 am

    I thought same Amanda! As a matter of fact was surprised that was all that showed on the test. Many have stuff wrong still…listening to his family. Sad for him but when be wrecked his car the first time when he made the U turn that was his sign. This was also not the first time he has been picked off for DUI. Could not make a coherent sentence 4 hrs later?? Sad all the way around but seems he wasn’t going to stop driving under the influence until he got some serious time.

  6. Shay on March 1st, 2019 7:37 am

    Still vehicular manslaughter regardless of his drug or alcohol of choice.

    The police must be looking for something else if they want his iPhone unlocked. To show he was or wasn’t on the phone at the time of the accident they would simply run his cell phone activity.

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