BRADENTON — A Bradenton woman on probation for a second-degree murder conviction was arrested Thursday for violating that probation when she was charged in a hit-and-run accident in June.
Angela Diaz Carrasco was sent to state prison in March 1998 for shooting 14-year-old Michelle Peterson in May 1997 in a Bradenton bar parking lot during an argument.
Carrasco served eight years of a 10-year prison sentence and was into her fourth year of an 11-year probation period.
According to a Florida Department of Corrections warrant for her latest arrest, Carrasco violated probation “by failing to live and remain at liberty without violating any law by committing the criminal offense of Hit and Run Crash with Property Damage.”
At about 9:50 p.m. June 17, Bradenton Police Department officers were called to the scene of a vehicle accident, according to a report.
The owner of the damaged vehicle said a woman in a leopard-print blouse backed into his parked van and left the scene.
Later that evening, the van owner called police to say the woman who hit his van returned and was parked in a driveway down the street.
When officers arrived, Carrasco, wearing a leopard-print blouse, was sitting in a Toyota Camry.
She was arrested and taken to Manatee County jail, where she was served with the probation violation arrest warrant Thursday.
Carrasco was found guilty in the shooting death of Peterson after a three-day jury trial.
According to Bradenton Herald archives, Carrasco, 27 at the time, and Peterson got into an argument while in the parking lot across from the former Blue Moon Bar, 619 19th Ave. W., Bradenton.
Carrasco pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and shot the 14-year-old in the upper part of her body. Peterson died about an hour later at Manatee Memorial Hospital.
The Herald reported a friend drove Carrasco to the Bradenton Police Department after the shooting, where she confessed to the shooting.
On a police interview audio tape, Carrasco can be heard crying and saying, “I didn’t mean to shoot that girl — I’m sorry. . . . I was taught when you’ve done something wrong, you pay for it.
“They kept bother me . . . I was going to show people to stop bothering me.”
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