Lazaro Mendez, known as DJ Laz is a famous Miami Radio personality and Cuban-American rapper, who was involved in a boating accident that took the life of a 23-year old man named Ernesto Hernandez in 2014. After a day in a vodka- sponsored event at a sandbar just off Key Biscayne, DJ Laz's 40-foot Hydro Sport Open Fisherman vessel sucked Ernesto Hernandez into the boat's propellers as he tried to help the boat that got lodged on the sandbar, fatally wounding him. DJ Laz recklessly endangered the throttle of the engine by trying revive the boat's engine with people still in the water.