Man Driving Home From Walmart Fatally Strikes Three Children on Sidewalk

A Florida man has been sentenced for plowing into six children on a sidewalk while attempting to get around a bus, a crash that claimed the lives of three young victims.

Sean Greer entered no contest pleas to multiple charges, including three counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving death, according to Broward County court records reviewed by Law&Crime. The children killed were 6-year-old Andrea Fleming, 5-year-old Paris Jones, and 9-year-old Laziyah “Minnie” Stukes.

Greer has now received a 73-year prison sentence, local independent station WPLG reported.

The deadly incident happened around 2:45 p.m. on Dec. 27, 2021, as six children were walking along the sidewalk in the 2400 block of Powerline Road in Wilton Manors, a community just north of Fort Lauderdale.

According to an affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, a gray 2009 Honda Accord was traveling on the roadway when it approached a Broward County Transit bus that had stopped to let off a passenger. As the bus began moving again and attempted to merge, Greer, who was behind the wheel of the Honda, tried to pass it and nearly struck the bus.

Greer, then 27, swerved off the road and onto the sidewalk, where he hit all six children. Authorities said that “after the crash occurred, the vehicle accelerated and fled the area.”

Andrea and Paris died soon after the impact. Laziyah and another child were rushed to the hospital in critical condition; Laziyah died from her injuries the following July.

Debris from the crash helped responding investigators determine what vehicle they were looking for. They tracked it down and noticed that the Accord’s damage “was consistent with being involved in this crash and was also missing the front bumper,” which was at the crash site, the court document stated.

Investigators then spoke with a witness, who said she was Greer’s neighbor. The woman recounted that Greer had come home that afternoon and said, “I f—ed up, and my bumper came off and caused a crash.”

Greer was then reportedly picked up by his mother, and he told the neighbor that “if the cops come by don’t tell them whose car that is.”

The following day, deputies with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office picked Greer up and interviewed him. He said he was driving home from Walmart “when he drove around a county bus” and hit a pole.

The defendant added that “he was on probation and didn’t want to get in trouble, so he drove home.” Authorities noted in the affidavit that Greer did not have a valid driver’s license since it was suspended in 2016.

As Greer was sentenced in court this week, family members of the child victims reproached him for his actions.

“No one cares about your upbringing,” Devera Stukes, Laziyah’s mother, said during her victim impact statement, per the independent TV station. “Our children were not on Powerline Road but on the sidewalk.”

The father of one of the surviving children walked out of the court proceeding, saying, “He almost killed my son.”