A South Carolina woman accused of crashing her car into the back of a bride and groom’s golf cart on their wedding night, killing one and sending three others to the hospital, is accused of “alcohol He announced that he admitted to having an addiction. New report.
member of parliament Charleston, South Carolina, Jamie Komorowski, 26, was arrested in April 2023, but earlier this month after prosecutors failed to bring him to trial by a judge’s March 1 deadline. He was released on $150,000 bail.
The bride, 34-year-old Samantha Miller, died in the accident. Her groom, Aric Hutchinson, 36, his brother Benjamin Garrett, and a juvenile relative were all seriously injured.
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Jamie Lee Komorowski appears on the balcony of her home in Charleston, South Carolina, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Komorowski was recently released on bail on the condition that he be placed under house arrest while awaiting trial. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
In court filings, Komorowski’s lawyers had already argued that she had struggled with alcohol, depression and anxiety for years, but the newspaper reported that in December He is said to have confessed this in his own words during a phone call with his sister Kelsi on the 11th. new york post.
“I consider myself an alcoholic because I was trying to do anything that would change my mood or take me away from what I was supposed to be feeling,” she said. “I didn’t think there was any meaning to life. I was so alone, there was no point in living. I couldn’t just sit there and have my thoughts.”
In another phone call, Komorowski’s father told her the conversation was being recorded. She also discussed reading her Bible during her incarceration and attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in her prison.
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On Thursday, March 7, 2024, Jamie Lee Komorowski’s sister Kelsi and father Charles arrive at their home in Charleston, South Carolina. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
”[In AA] We talk about how our higher powers can’t stop something bad from happening because we are given free will and free choices, which have consequences. But he can make good things out of bad situations,” she said, as reported by the Post.
After she was released on bail, her family helped her move into a new apartment in Charleston, but she is required to remain there under the terms of her release.
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A composite image showing Jamie Komorowski (left) before his arrest. She drove her Toyota Camry drunk into a golf cart carrying newlyweds Aric Hutchinson and Samantha Miller (right) on their first night together, killing the bride and seriously injuring three others, including the groom. He has been charged with inflicting injury. The background shows the aftermath of the crash. (Folly Beach Public Safety, Jamie Komorowski/Instagram, South Carolina 9th Judicial Circuit)
Photos show them carrying moving supplies, including blankets and a fruit stand, on one of several trips they made to the apartment last week.
According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the surviving victims, Komorowski had been hopping to at least four bars before the accident and had a blood alcohol level of 0.261 (more than three times the legal limit). It is said that it has been reached.
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South Carolina bride Samantha Miller was killed and groom Aric Hutchinson was seriously injured on their wedding night when a suspected drunk driver crashed into his golf cart. (GoFundMe)
After drinking for hours at at least four bars, the New Jersey native got behind the wheel in a “nearly unconscious state” and took a wrong turn in the opposite direction from her home. and collided with a golf cart.” She was in a “drunk haze” traveling over 105 mph in a 25 mph zone.
Benjamin Garrett sits next to groom Aric Hutchinson in a hospital bed. A drunk driver crashed a golf cart, seriously injuring two men and killing his bride, Samantha Miller. (GoFundMe)
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She is under house arrest with an ankle monitor.
If convicted, she could face up to 25 years in prison.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
