Two Spring Breakers, aged 21 and 24, are charged with murder for 'raping and robbing woman, 24, before leaving her to die in her Miami hotel room after giving her fentanyl and alcohol'
- Evoir Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 25, were both charged with the murder for the March 2021 death of Christine Englehardt, 24
- Prosecutors said they raped and robbed Englehardt after giving her fentanyl
- Toxicology report concluded Englehardt had fatal amounts of fentanyl in her system and blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit
- Her face was pressed into the bed, causing her to asphyxiate
- Taylor charged with additional murder of Walter Riley, 21, for allegedly giving him the same opioid that caused Englehardt's death just two days later
Two North Carolina men were charged with murder after raping and robbing a 24-year-old tourist who overdosed during spring break in Miami Beach.
Evoire Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 25, both from Greensboro, North Carolina, were found responsible for the fentanyl-induced death of Christine Englehardt, of Richboro, Pennsylvania, in March, a grand jury in Miami-Dade County said.
The three-page grand jury report accuses the pair of killing Englehardt with their "unlawful distribution of fentanyl" while committing sexual battery and burglary.
The men allegedly took Englehardt's credit cards and made illegal purchases at SOBE Liquors and the Sugar Factory.
Evoire Collier, 21 (left), and Dorian Taylor, 24 (right), were charged with murder in connection with the death of tourist Christine Englehardt at her Miami hotel room in March
Toxicology tests have revealed that fentanyl and alcohol played roles in Englehardt's death
Englehardt (right), pictured with mom Doreen, was allegedly given a green pill by one of the suspects, which was made to look like a painkiller but contained fentanyl
Englehardt was found lying face down on the bed at the Albion Hotel in South Beach on March 18 after she was raped and robbed
The grand jury also added a second first-degree murder charge against Taylor for supplying the same opioid to Walter Riley, 21, from Chicago.
He was found unconscious on a nearby street and died March 20, two days after Englehardt was found unresponsive in her hotel room, the Miami Herald reported.
Englehardt met the men while visiting South Beach, and went with them to her room at the Albion Hotel, prosecutors said.
According to police, Collier and Taylor led a severely intoxicated Englehardt into the room, where they sexually assaulted her after she lost consciousness, and then stole her credit cards to help fund the rest of their South Beach vacation.
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Collier´s attorney, Phil Reizenstein, told the Herald he's "stunned" by the indictment. He said the medical examiner found Englehardt had ingested so many different drugs that it was nearly impossible to pin down what caused her death.
"I think they´re going to regret doing this," said Reizenstein. "I think by the time I´m finished with them, they´re never going to be able to say she died of this."
Taylor´s attorney, Liesbeth Boot, couldn´t be reached.
The men remain jailed in Miami. They were arrested March 21, according to jail records.
Collier is seen posing up while roaming the streets of South Beach along with other Spring Breakers
Collier and Taylor are seen 'photo-bombing' another tourist a day after Englehardt's death
Englehardt also hard traces of cocaine, marijuana and amphetamine in her system
Authorities said surveillance video captured the men entering the hotel with Englehardt and later leaving without her.
An arrest report says Collier confessed to giving Englehardt a green pill and claimed they sexually assaulted her in the hotel room even as she lay unconscious.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner determined the pills ingested by Englehardt were "rapidly fatal" fentanyl.
The autopsy also found that her alcohol level when she died hovered near 2.0, almost three times the legal limit, and asphyxia may have played a role in her death, the Herald reported.
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