The motive force within the crash that killed a bride on her wedding ceremony night time on a South Carolina seaside street was thrice over the ingesting restrict, a blood take a look at reveals.
The toxicology report processed and launched by the forensic laboratory at South Carolina’s State Regulation Enforcement Division reveals the alleged drunk driver, Jamie Lee Komoroski, had a blood alcohol content material of 0.261%. The state prohibits driving with a blood alcohol content material of 0.08 or greater.
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Komoroski, 25, was driving 65 miles per hour in her rental automotive earlier than she hit the again of the golf cart carrying the bride round 10 p.m. Friday on Folly Seaside, investigators stated.
Samantha Miller, 34, died whereas nonetheless carrying her wedding ceremony gown. Aric Hutchinson, MIller’s husband, is recovering from a mind damage and quite a few damaged bones.
Police investigators stated in an affidavit that Komoroski had “an odor of alcohol coming from her breath and particular person.” When the investigator requested her if she had something to drink that night time, Komoroski answered, “Nope ooh I had two drinks, one beer and a drink.” Then she stated, “Like a tequila and pineapple.”
She stated she was driving dwelling when “one thing hit her,” the incident report stated. Police famous she was driving in the other way of her dwelling.
Komoroski refused to take any discipline sobriety checks and requested for a lawyer, the report stated. Police tried to place her in a police automotive and take her again to the station however she stored asking “why she was being arrested.”
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She refused to present breath samples on the police station, the report stated. Investigators obtained a warrant to attract two blood vials, which Folly Seaside police despatched to South Carolina Regulation Enforcement Division to check, the report stated.
Komoroski has been charged with reckless vehicular murder and three counts of driving beneath the affect inflicting dying.
Her lawyer Chris Gramiccioni instructed CBS Information “We can’t fathom what the households are going via and supply our deepest sympathies. We merely ask that there not be a rush to judgment. Our court docket system is based upon ideas of justice and mercy and that’s the place all information will come to gentle.”
In line with court docket information, Komoroksi is scheduled to seem on June 16. She is at the moment being held on the Charleston County jail.
Reporting contributed by Greg Canella
