On Sunday, June 19, 2016, a pack of riders on their racing bikes (crotch rockets) met up at Dick Sporting Goods on Cleveland Avenue with the apparent intent of racing their bikes down Colonial boulevard at speeds approaching 200 mph. It appears these groups meet up Sunday and Thursday nights for this purpose.
This meeting occurred between four and five hours after Dick’s Sporting Goods closed for the day.
According to a “witness” who is believed to be one of the pack riders, the pack headed North on Cleveland Avenue turning West onto Colonial Boulevard.
It appears the pack surrounded a Dodge Ram 1500 with a Camper Top, causing an accident with that vehicle.
Based on the evidence, it is clear that riders, fled the scene of the accident. The evidence reflects there were at least three more accidents following. It appears there was a fourth, as well, creating five accident scenes.
Accident 1, is the motorcycles striking what witnesses describe as a Dodge Ram 1500 with a camper top. At some point the claim was made by the investigator and prosecutor that there was only one motorcycle and it collided with a Toyota Tundra. The state’s own expert witnesses, paint match experts at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), have proven repeatedly that the motorcycle in question did not collide with the Toyota Tundra.
Per the witness Bernal, the motorcycle “goosed it” to flee the accident scene. After doing so, the motorcycle rider, Adam King, lost control of the motorcycle, crashing into a concrete curb. This is Accident Scene 2.
The motorcycle continued up the median striking a sign post. This was Accident Scene 3.
At this point he was separated from his vehicle as both flew through the air at high speed.
The motorcycle struck a palm tree in the median, creating Accident Scene 4.
All of the motorcycles involved fled the first accident scene, leaving the Dodge Ram 1500 with the camper top at the first scene.
It appears due to the aggressive behavior of the racing bike riders that the Dodge Ram with the Camper Top left. Although there is yet no evidence to point to this, the working theory is that the Dodge Ram with the Camper Top struck the left side of the Toyota Tundra before fleeing and turning off Colonial Boulevard. This would make Accident Scene 5.
The 911 report shows there were five motorcycle riders attending to Adam King. Comments were made that four of the riders moved the body, altering Accident Scene 4.
Reports show that when police arrived only one of the riders was on scene, Timothy Bernal, who had made the 911 call. The others had fled that accident scene.
As the riders were committing a crime by driving recklessly and aggressively at excessive speeds causing the accident, and one of their riders died as a result, they may be on the hook for murder, or manslaughter, which explains why they fled the accident scenes.
Evidence shows that one of the investigators, Breneman, had to get Shane Romero’s phone number from Bernal, and convince him to meet with her at a nearby drug store where the investigator believed she had found the abandoned vehicle the motorcycles struck.
The other riders are never mentioned in any of the reports.
At no point after the accident did any of the riders or any of the other vehicles ride down Dabney Street, which was approximately 5 miles from the accident scene and on a dead end road.