A South Carolina girl who was charged with killing a bride on her marriage ceremony night time in a DUI crash final April has been launched from jail lower than a yr later.
Jamie Komoroski, 26, posted her $150,000 bail on Friday, and was launched from the Charleston County jail at 3:16 p.m., jail information confirmed.
On April 28, 2023, Samantha Miller, 34, died and her groom, Aric Hutchinson, 36, was severely injured, when Komoroski allegedly rear-ended their golf cart whereas she was driving twice the posted pace restrict after the blissful newlyweds left their reception in Folly Beach, South Carolina, underneath a cover of sparklers.
Komoroski, whose blood-alcohol content material was greater than 3 times the authorized restrict, had beforehand been held with out bail after the wreck.
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Jame Lee Komoroski, inset, is charged with killing bride Sam Miller and severely injuring groom Aric Hutchinson on the couple’s marriage ceremony night time when she slammed her automobile into their golf cart. The couple is proven leaving their South Carolina marriage ceremony reception underneath a cover of sparklers minutes earlier than the collision. (Charleston County Sheriff’s Office / GoFundMe)
“She didn’t just kill my child,” Lisa Miller, the bride’s mom, instructed the court docket final yr whereas arguing that Komoroski did not should be launched. “She killed all of us.”
Komoroski will likely be fitted with a SCRAM ankle monitor, jail information confirmed. The monitor measures the wearer’s alcohol degree by sampling their sweat each half-hour, based on its web site.
She was additionally pressured to give up her passport and can’t drive and isn’t allowed to depart her residence aside from medical emergencies or court docket dates, based on the New York Post.
A decide dominated beforehand that she may very well be allowed bond if her trial didn’t begin earlier than this March. Her trial date hasn’t been set.
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“I want that to include house arrest, ankle monitoring and not being able to leave the state,” Miller instructed the Post. “We were all expecting she would have been bonded out first time [last summer] but luckily the judge kept her in, I think that was to do with our impact statements.”
Lisa Miller, left, has known as for the alleged drunken driver who killed her daughter and bride Samantha Miller, and severely injured groom Aric Hutchinson on their marriage ceremony night time, to stay in jail. (Fox News Digital/GoFundMe)
Komoroski’s lawyer instructed the Post: “She now looks forward to demonstrating her continued commitment to rehabilitation upon her pretrial release from detention,” including that she isn’t a flight danger or hazard to the neighborhood.
Komoroski has been charged with three counts of felony DUI leading to loss of life and one depend of reckless murder.
Earlier on the night time of the deadly crash, Komoroski drank “copious amounts of alcohol” whereas barhopping with mates, the groom alleged in a civil wrongful loss of life lawsuit.
According to an affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital, Komoroski refused to take a sobriety check on the scene and appeared “very unsteady on her feet and almost fell down.”
Moments earlier than Komoroski allegedly plowed into the couple in her Toyota Camry, Miller instructed her new husband she needed the “night to last forever.”
Hutchinson suffered mind bleeding, damaged bones and facial fractures which have required quite a few surgical procedures.
Fox News Digital’s Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report.
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