Nastasia Andranie Snape was arrested Saturday and charged with vehicle murder, leaving the scene of a crash with death and the scene of a crash with injuries, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office jail entries.
CNN has not been able to determine whether Snape will be represented by an attorney who would comment on her behalf.
Feuerstein served as a judge on the US District Court in the Eastern District of New York.
In a statement, Mark Lesko, acting US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said the office expressed its condolences to the court and Feuerstein’s family.
“As we mourn her tragic death, we also remember Judge Feuerstein’s unwavering commitment to justice and service to the people of our district and our nation,” said Lesko.
According to an affidavit by Boca Raton Police Department, agents responded to a fatal collision with two pedestrians on North Ocean Boulevard in Boca Raton on Friday, April 9, at approximately 10:22 a.m.ET.
A red, two-door sedan heading north had approached the intersection at North Ocean Boulevard and Northwest 40th Street, the affidavit says. The vehicle, which was being driven ‘erratically’, had been driven around and stopped traffic as it ‘entered the pavement on the west shoulder of the roadway’.
Feuerstein was heading south on the sidewalk when she was hit by the car, the affidavit said. The vehicle continued north and hit a 6-year-old boy crossing Ocean Boulevard.
Feuerstein was taken to Delray Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, the affidavit said.
Police were told by Delray Beach Police Department officers that the vehicle had crashed in their jurisdiction. The driver, later identified as Snape, was behind the wheel of the car and appeared to be unconscious, a Delray police officer said, according to the affidavit.
The officer said he saw “Snape began to have convulsions or seizures” as he approached the vehicle. When Snape exited the vehicle, the officer said she would not respond to his attempts to talk to her.
Snape said everything was fine, the affidavit says, but the officer noted that she “did not make eye contact or move like the typical person who had just been involved in a crash.”
Once inside an ambulance, Snape began “screaming and fighting with medics, declaring she was Harry Potter,” the affidavit said. Medics had to administer ketamine to calm her.
At the Delray Medical Center, another officer said Snape told him she remembered being involved in a crash, but when asked where the crash took place, Snape said, “I wasn’t in a crash.”
The officer stated that her behavior was “erratic” and said her bag contained several containers labeled “THC Cannabis”. Among her belongings was also a drug called “T ‘salts,” the affidavit says, stating that they are “widely known for causing erratic agitated delirium-like behavior.”
Feuerstein was nominated to federal bank by George W. Bush in 2003, according to her page on the US Courts website. She previously taught in New York before attending Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Prior to being nominated to the federal bank, Feuerstein was a judge on Nassau County District Court, a judge for the tenth judicial district of the New York Supreme Court and an associate judge in the Second Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division.
CNN has contacted the court for a statement in response to her death.