Former high school basketball coach Robert Williams and two young women riding on his boat drowned after being thrown into Choctawhatchee Bay when the vessel rammed a piling of the Mid-Bay Bridge in December, according to autopsy reports dated Jan. 22.
All three were intoxicated, the reports indicate. The manner of death was ruled accidental.
The body of 18-year-old Taylor Evanoff’s body was discovered in the water Dec. 6. The bodies of Williams, 47, and Jamilia Beltz, 21, were found Dec. 7.
All three were from Niceville.
The autopsy reports, compiled by Medical Examiner Andrea Minyard, indicate Williams suffered the most injuries in the crash, which is believed to have happened early Dec. 5.
Williams, who once coached at Bay High School, suffered multiple broken ribs and a broken right arm, his autopsy report said. He also had large bruises on his head, a 3-inch cut to his scalp and contusions and abrasions on his upper body.
The autopsy report said Williams’ blood-alcohol content was 0.15 and his urine alcohol level was 0.20.
A blood-alcohol level of 0.08 is considered intoxicated in Florida.
Evanoff had cuts and bruising to her thighs and legs and Beltz had cuts and bruising to her legs, hips and thigh, according their autopsy reports.
Evanoff’s blood-alcohol content was 0.15, her report said. No urine testing appeared to have been conducted.
Beltz had a blood-alcohol content of 0.20 and a urine alcohol content of 0.28, according to her report.
Williams and Evanoff’s bodies bore ink marks, their autopsy reports said.
The marks seem to bolster the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s theory that the three victims had been at a club until about midnight Dec. 4.
Investigators have learned Williams, Evanoff and Baltz took a cab to Legendary Marina on Okaloosa Island, where they boarded Williams’ 336 Cobalt boat.
Williams’ body was found near the wreckage. His autopsy report said he had 74 $1 bills and 32 $100 bills in his pockets.