Woman Pleads Guilty In Cousin's Homewood Car Surfing Death
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A woman has pleaded guilty after her cousin died while car surfing in Homewood earlier this year.
According to the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office, 24-year-old Nadia Goins-Samuels pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter.
As part of the plea, one count of homicide by vehicle and one count of recklessly endangering another person were withdrawn.
Goins-Samuels also received five years of probation.
Witnesses say a group of people were at a party along Race Street. Goins-Samuels told police that a man at the party jumped on the hood of her car when she was ready to leave the party. She went on to say she drove up the block with the man on her hood, did a U-turn and came back to the site of the party.
At that point, the man jumped off of the car and Goins-Samuels says her cousin, 15-year-old Ronte Goins-Nelson, jumped on the trunk. She claims he told her to drive, but that she told him no several times. After he kept asking, she eventually drove away with Ronte on the trunk of her car.
Goins-Samuels told police that she was going about 25 or 30 mph up Race Street when she heard her cousin say "whoa." At that time, she noticed him starting to slip off the trunk.
Eventually, Ronte jumped from the trunk and landed on his head. A week-and-a-half later, he died from his injuries.
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