A Fort Lauderdale personal injury lawyer ran over 4 people at a Fresh Market, cops say
A Fort Lauderdale personal injury attorney has been hit with an emergency suspension from the Florida Bar after, security video and witnesses say she drove her Kia into four people on a sidewalk outside The Fresh Market, according to Stuart police.
When officers stopped Beatrice Bijoux, they say she told them she meant to hit the people. She wasn’t trying to drum up business, but, rather “voices in her head had told her to kill the people,” an arrest report said.
Bijoux, who has been held without bond in Martin County Jail since the Feb. 22 incident, pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of high speed or wanton fleeing and four counts of attempted murder. On March 21, the state Supreme Court granted the Bar’s request of emergency suspension for Bijoux, who was admitted to the Bar in 2016.
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Crashing into them wasn’t an accident, she said
Both Bijoux’s Bar address and her law firm’s website says her firm’s main office is in Fort Lauderdale, but the arrest report says she lives in Stuart.
After Stuart police answered a 12:52 p.m. 911 call from The Fresh Market at 2300 SE Ocean Blvd., the report said, one person who had been hit had been airlifted to a hospital and three people were still there. Two people who had been sitting at a table said the car hopped the curb and pushed
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