A woman from Central Florida was arrested Tuesday on a warrant in connection with a fiery crash that killed four people on April 21, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office announced.
Jazmin Shope, 20, of Auburndale in Polk County, is facing four counts of vehicular homicide. She was speeding in a 2013 Ford Taurus shortly before 9 p.m. in the 17900 block of South Military Trail near the entrance to the Polo Club Shops and crashed into the passenger side of a 2017 Genesis G90 as it turned into the shopping plaza, according to a PBSO crash report.
The force of impact forced both cars off the road. The Genesis G90 slammed into a concrete utility pole while the engine compartment of Shope’s Ford caught fire and became engulfed in flames, the report said.
All four people inside the Genesis were pronounced dead at the scene: James Lawrence Rose, 88, of Boca Raton; Arlene Rose, 87, of Boca Raton; Gerald A. Levy, 92, of Boca Raton; and Thelma Illson Levy, 93, of Boca Raton.
Shope and her passenger, Ethan Ryan Litman, 22, of Delray Beach, were both taken to Delray Medical Center with serious injuries, the crash report said.
Shope was booked into the Palm Beach County jail Tuesday afternoon after she was arrested by the Sheriff’s Office’s Fugitive Warrants Unit. The Sheriff’s Office did not provide further information about its investigation or information about where they located Shope on Tuesday.
Court records were not yet available.
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Jazmin Shope, 20, of Polk County, was booked into the Palm Beach County jail on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, on charges stemming from a crash in April that killed four people, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office announced. (Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office/Courtesy)
