2 North Carolina men charged with drugging and raping woman at Miami Beach hotel now charged with murder

MIAMI (AP) – Two North Carolina men accused of raping a 24-year-old tourist who overdosed during spring break in Miami Beach now face first degree murder charges.
A Miami-Dade County grand jury on Wednesday found Evore Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 25, both of Greensboro, North Carolina, responsible for the fentanyl-induced death in March of Richboro’s Christine Englehardt. , Pennsylvania. She met the men on a visit to South Beach and accompanied them to her room at the Albion Hotel, prosecutors said.
The grand jury added a first degree murder charge against Taylor for supplying the same opioid to Walter Riley, 21, of Chicago. He was found unconscious on a nearby street and died on March 20, two days after Englehardt was found unconscious in his hotel room, the Miami Herald reported.
The three-page grand jury report accuses the couple of killing Englehardt with their “illegal distribution of fentanyl” while committing sexual violence and robbery. The men allegedly took Englehardt’s credit cards and made illegal purchases at SOBE Liquors and Sugar Factory.
Collier’s attorney, Phil Reizenstein, told the Herald he was “stunned” by the indictment. He said the medical examiner found that Englehardt had ingested so many different drugs that it was almost impossible to determine the cause of his death.
“I think they’re going to regret doing this,” Reizenstein said. “I think by the time I’m done with them, they’ll never be able to say she died of this.”
Taylor’s attorney, Liesbeth Boot, could not be reached.
The men remain imprisoned in Miami. They were arrested on March 21, according to prison records.
Authorities said surveillance footage 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 though she lay unconscious.
The Miami-Dade medical examiner determined that the pills Englehardt ingested were “quickly lethal” fentanyl. The autopsy also revealed that his alcohol level at the time of his death hovered around 2.0, nearly three times the legal limit, and that asphyxiation may have played a role in his death, reported the Herald.