Just weeks before her daughter planned to announce her pregnancy, Marcia Pochette looked forward to becoming a grandmother. But on the evening of July 30, 2024, both their lives were violently cut short — and now, nearly a year later, seven West Palm Beach police officers are facing criminal charges in the tragic vehicle pursuit that claimed them.

On June 4, those officers turned themselves in for their alleged roles in a high-speed chase that crossed city lines and ended in a fatal crash in Boynton Beach.

The pursuit, which began when 23-year-old Neoni Copeland refused to stop for police, ended when he slammed his silver Kia Stinger into a Toyota Corolla at the intersection of North Congress Avenue and Meadows Boulevard — killing 57-year-old Pochette and her 27-year-old daughter, Jenice

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