Inset left: Kim Aime (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation). Inset right: Marlene Edward (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: The intersection of Northeast 167th Street & Northeast 2nd Avenue in Miami-Dade County, Florida (Google Maps).
Two Florida women are accused of attacking a couple with a tequila bottle and trying to enter their vehicle in a violent road rage incident just north of Miami.
Kim Aime, 26, has been charged with burglary — assault or battery, two counts of battery, resisting an officer without violence to his person, and drug charges, per Miami-Dade County jail records. Marlene Edward, 25, stands charged with aggravated battery causing bodily harm, the same burglary with assault or battery charge, and her own drug charges.
Sometime before 1 p.m. Sunday, a married couple was driving west on Northeast 167th Street, approaching Northeast 2nd Avenue, according to arrest affidavits obtained by Law&Crime. It was at this time that they saw a woman “driving her vehicle recklessly” and almost crashing into their vehicle.
Both vehicles stopped at the intersection. The car in question, being driven by Aime and in which Edward was a passenger, parked “in the middle of traffic, obstructing the roadway,” authorities said. Then the violence broke out.
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Aime reportedly got out of her vehicle and approached the alleged victims, still seated in their car. She proceeded to “reach inside a crack of the window on the driver”s side in an attempt to force” her way in, the affidavit states, noting that the wife — the passenger in the vehicle — showed law enforcement a video of this.
While trying to get inside the couple’s car, Aime hit the husband in the driver’s seat “multiple times,” the court document says. Then, the two suspects allegedly focused on the wife.
According to authorities, the two women approached the passenger “and began to strike her multiple times,” with Aime hitting her with a closed fist “throughout her body” and Edward “striking her with an empty bottle of Patron tequila as she was on the ground.”
Seeing his wife hurt, the husband reportedly got out of their vehicle and rushed to her defense, but the suspects trained their sights on him. Aime punched him “multiple times in the face” and across his body while Edward hit him in the face with the tequila bottle, the affidavit reads.
They then fled into the parking lot of a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store, with the husband and wife following them. At one point, Aime threw up “both middle fingers” toward the wife.
It is unclear what directly led to the altercation, such as whether the alleged victims and suspects exchanged words or honks of the horn in the immediate moments leading up to the attack.
Officers arrived and noted the alleged victims’ injuries. The wife had “visible blood in her mouth, with a laceration to her lip, along with a knot on the right end of her scalp, and visible swelling on the top of her gums,” the affidavit says. The husband had a cut and blood on his hand, “knots visible on the back of his head,” and cuts on his ankle.
Aime and Edward were arrested at the scene, and their vehicle was searched. The search uncovered two debit cards, neither of them belonging to Aime or Edward, authorities said. Also found were more than 34 grams of cannabis, as well as 3 grams of suspected cocaine.
Edward reportedly claimed that it was the couple who first exited their vehicle and attacked them.
The wife appeared in bond court on Monday and gave more details about her account of the incident. She claimed Aime was the one who “initiated everything.”
“She was the one who came inside our vehicle and pulled basically both of us out of the vehicle,” the woman said, per local CBS affiliates WFOR/WBFS. “She was the one who antagonized the other defendant to hit us with a bottle multiple times and said, ‘You deserve this.'”
“I was trying to understand why they were being so aggressive,” the alleged victim reportedly added. “She basically hit our vehicle twice. It was basically life or death. They could have killed me and my husband.”
Aime and Edward are being held at Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation without bond.
