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In this photo posted on March 11 on
Facebook, Alejandro Aparicio poses next to his motorcycle. Aparicio was
killed Sunday in a head-on collision with a tractor trailer on US 41.
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At 4:18 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, Alejandro
Aparicio made a rambling post on Facebook in which he promised to soon
be reunited with his late girlfriend Andrea Greenberg. To many of Aparicio’s friends, the post read like a suicide note.
Just a few
minutes later, Aparicio drove his motorcycle directly into the oncoming
path of a tractor-trailer heading east on U.S. 41 at mile marker 42.
That collision caused a second truck to plow into the rear of the first truck, causing it to jackknife across U.S. 41. Both vehicles burst into flame.
Aparicio, 59,
was instantly killed. Darren Caprara, director of operations for the
Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office, confirmed Aparicio’s death. The
case is still under investigation.
One truck driver was taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center. He was released early Wednesday, according to the hospital.
At the time of his death, Aparacio faced criminal charges for theft and other financial crimes.
In February,
Aparicio was ordered by a judge to wear an ankle GPS-monitoring device
after being charged with stealing Greenberg’s money and forging her
will. Early Monday morning, the signal from the device went dark,
spurring a judge to issue a warrant for Aparicio’s arrest. The presumption by authorities was that Aparicio, who was facing up to 65 years in prison, had gone on the lam.
The charges of financial crimes, filed by the State Attorney’s Office, were the result of a prolonged legal battle in
probate court between Aparicio and Greenberg’s sister Valerie
Greenberg, who accused him of stealing money from Andrea, forging her
will to make himself the sole heir of her $600,000 estate and other
financial crimes.
“Alejandro
poisoned and killed my sister,” Valerie said in a statement to the
Herald. “The walls were closing in on him. Rather than face the truth
and take responsibility for what he did, he chose this way out. It does
not bring Andrea back. But now my family and I can focus on remembering
Andrea.”
Greenberg, a
well-liked veteran of Miami’s real estate brokerage industry, was found
dead by Aparicio in their home on Oct. 17, 2017. The Miami-Dade Medical
Examiner’s report concluded she died from “acute combined drug toxicity”
involving three kinds of the opioid fentanyl.
That
explanation never sat well with Greenberg’s friends, who knew the
54-year-old as someone “completely averse to drugs,” according to her
longtime friend Amy Zakarin.
“Andrea drank
wine at social gatherings, and that was it,” Zakarin said. “Nothing made
sense about her dying when she was so healthy and happy. I’m in shock
and so sad about all of this. The fact that Alejandro drove head-on into
that truck and put other people in harm’s way is devastating.”
Aparicio’s
friends, too, were shocked by the news of his death, although they had
begun to worry after reading his final Facebook post on Sunday.
“It’s a tragic
end,” said Juan Restrepo, who had been friends with Aparicio since
childhood. “I’m not entirely surprised, because I told my cousin on
Sunday Alejandro was probably going to kill himself. I never thought he
was the kind of guy who would try to flee. But I’m still at a loss for
words. It’s a tragic, tragic end.”
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| Andrea Greenberg and Alejandro Aparicio in
one of the hundreds of photos Aparicio posted on his Facebook wall over
the last two weeks. |
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