Woman Charged In Deaths of 3 Miami Area Soccer Players

NORTH MIAMI, FL — A 31-year-old woman accused in the deaths of three Miami area teenagers who were killed by the woman's SUV on their way to play in a soccer tournament last month, has traded her bed at Aventura Hospital for one in a Miami-Dade corrections facility, according to North Miami police.

"We had been standing guard protecting her because she is within our custody and she received medical treatment," Commander Brooks of the North Miami Police Department told Patch, adding that Mariam Coulibaly was taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Wednesday.

Coulibaly was charged with three counts of DUI manslaughter and three counts of vehicular homicide.

The fatal crash happened about 5:30 a.m. on May 25 at NE 125th Street at 13th Avenue in North Miami as the boys — all players for the Little Haiti FC Soccer Club — were walking to board a bus with their teammates. See also Charges Pending In Deaths Of 3 Miami Area Teen Soccer Players

"There is no such thing as a DUI accident," Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said earlier. "Every DUI incident is a crime, an act undertaken by an individual who could have chosen not to drink and drive but instead decided to start the car and go. The results are always terrible as the loss of these three fine young men so vividly displays."

The teenagers were identified by North Miami police as 17-year-old Richecarde Dumay, 15-year-old Lens Desir, and 13-year-old Gedeon Desir.

The three would've played alongside their friends as part of the Under-18 and Under-15 teams in the Enigma Tournament in Weston.

The oldest, Richecarde Dumay, also played football as a kicker for Miami Edison High School.

The Little Haiti FC Club called it "a horribly tragic accident" in which the boys were killed.

A total of $82,698 had been donated via GoFundMe toward funeral expenses for the boys' families as of Thursday afternoon.

"Any additional funding will go towards the Little Haiti FC and carrying on its mission of serving the at-risk youth of the community in memory of their friends that passed away so tragically," the soccer club said on GoFundMe, which is a Patch promotional partner.