Broward Sheriffs Office announces arrest in dragging death of local woman
UPDATE: Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne announced Monday afternoon the arrest of a man at New York's John F. Kennedy airport in the dragging death of Sandra Hall, 44, of Fort Lauderdale.
Hall, 44, was trying to stop the driver of that van, described as a white Dodge Caravan with partial tag C72, authorities said. Instead, the Caravan dragged her along State Road 7/U.S. 441 for about two miles, from just north of Commercial Boulevard until just north of Prospect Road, killing her around 10 p.m. Sunday.
Williams was driving a Cadillac, with Hall in the passenger seat, and Hall's mother Theresa Campbell and sister in the back. They were heading back to their Fort Lauderdale homes from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino after playing the slots and having a few drinks. As he drove northbound from Davie, another driver pulled alongside Williams to let him know his headlights were out. Williams said he was pulling into a Shell gas station at the intersection of Riverland Road to see why the headlights were off when the Dodge Caravan slammed into the Cadillac's rear end. He got out to talk to the van's driver, but that man took off immediately.
Williams said he jumped back into the Cadillac and chased the van, calling police to report the hit-and-run. The Caravan finally stopped at a red traffic light at Oakland Park Boulevard, he said. Williams got out again to confront its driver. That's when the chase turned tragic.
"My wife got out of the car to go stand in front of him, so he wouldn't go nowhere," Williams said.
But when the traffic light changed to green, the unidentified driver began moving forward again. The van took off again and heard his wife protest, saying, "You ain't going nowhere."
Surprised and horrified, Williams chased the van on foot for a short while and begged the driver to stop so his wife could get off safely. Detectives say Hall fell off the minivan's hood and got caught in the undercarriage, Sheriff Ken Jenne said at a news conference Monday morning. The driver then dragged her for about two miles, reaching speeds up to 70 mph in the process and weaving between lanes in an attempt to shake her off. He finally left Hall dead in the 1600 block of State Road 7 in North Lauderdale.
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