Newly released police footage captures convicted drunk driver Jamie Lee Komoroski sobbing for her father and repeatedly questioning why she was being arrested, moments after she struck a newlywed bride who was still wearing her wedding dress.
Komoroski, now serving a 25-year prison sentence, later admitted to crashing into 34-year-old Samantha Miller and her groom, Aric Hutchinson, then 36, as the couple left their wedding reception.
The footage offers a clearer look at how Komoroski’s behavior shifted from distressed to combative after she slammed into the golf cart carrying the newlyweds on Folly Island, South Carolina, in 2023.
When officers and first responders reached the scene, Komoroski — a waitress at a Mexican restaurant — could be heard screaming as she urged them to check on the bride.
‘Is she OK?’ the then-25-year-old, wearing a bralette and over-shirt, cried out while pointing toward the wreckage. ‘Make sure she’s OK.’
About 30 minutes later, bodycam video shows an officer questioning Komoroski about how much she had drunk before getting behind the wheel.
‘I was driving and then all of a sudden something hit me,’ she said, slurring her words.
Komoroski first denied drinking alcohol, but soon changed her account, saying she had consumed only two drinks that night — a ‘beer and an alcoholic beverage.’
Bride killer Jamie Lee Komoroski demanded to know why she was arrested after drunkenly mowing down a newlywed couple on Folly Island, South Carolina, in 2023, footage shows
As officers arrived on the scene, Komoroski – a waitress at a Mexican restaurant – could be heard screaming loudly as she called on first responders to make sure the bride was OK
Samantha Miller, 34, was killed and her groom, Aric Hutchinson, then 36, was injured in the crash on their wedding night
Pressed on what the other drink was, Komoroski then sputtered that she had downed ‘a tequila pineapple.’
The officer asked Komoroski to rate how drunk she was on a scale of one to ten – with ten being the ‘most intoxicated you’ve ever been in your life.’
Komoroski quickly fired back: ‘I would like a lawyer, honestly.’
The footage later showed the drunk driver repeatedly demanding to know why she was being handcuffed – despite the officer clearly telling her multiple times she was nabbed on suspicion of a DUI.
She then quickly started wailing again when cops eventually dragged her into the back of the squad car.
Separate video from back at the police station showed a still-cuffed Komoroski stubbornly refusing a breathalyzer test and repeatedly begging to be able to call her father.
‘I would like the right to call my father right now… Can I please call him?’ she said. ‘I just want to get it over with and go home… can I just call?
Eventually, vials of blood that were taken and tested placed her blood alcohol at 0.261 per cent. The legal limit in South Carolina is 0.08 per cent.
Video from the night of the tragedy sheds light on how a then-25-year-old Komoroski quickly went from distraught to unruly after crashing into the golf cart
The footage later showed the drunk driver repeatedly demanding to know why she was being handcuffed – despite the officer clearly telling her multiple times she was nabbed on suspicion of a DUI
Initially, Komoroski denied having any alcohol but quickly claimed she had only consumed two drinks
The killer was sentenced to 25 years in prison after admitting to reckless homicide in 2024
At one point, she repeatedly said ‘prove it, prove it, prove it’ when cops told her – yet again – why she had been detained.
More than a year later, Komoroski was sentenced to 25 years in prison after admitting to reckless homicide.
Komoroski after the fatal crash in 2023
‘On the night of April 22, 2023, I chose to drink and drive which resulted in the death of Samantha Miller,’ she told the court during her sentencing hearing.
‘This is the worst decision I have ever made in my life. Due to my poor decisions a beautiful wife, sister and mother was taken… all I can say is how incredibly remorseful I am.’
In the hours before the fatal crash, Komoroski had ‘slurred and staggered her way’ through a deadly bar-hopping spree in Folly Beach before choosing to get behind the wheel.
As she was driving home, eerie surveillance footage – obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail at the time – captured the golf cart carrying the newlywed and two other family members from their reception in Folly County Park pavilion.
Two minutes later the car being driven by Komoroski could be seen speeding by.
Komoroski, who had more than three times the legal alcohol limit in her system, had been driving 65mph at the time of the crash.
Komoroski had a blood alcohol level three times higher than the legal driving limit when she crashed a Toyota Camry into the newlywed couple
Surveillance footage from the road on which the crash took place, obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, shows the golf cart carrying the bride and groom and two other family members slowly drive by
The couple’s mangled golf cart after the crash. The cart rolled multiple times and was thrown 100 yards by Komoroski’s Toyota Camry
Exclusive Daily Mail photos show Komoroski settling into her new home in an upscale enclave of Charleston after she was initially freed on bail
Prior to the deadly ordeal, Komoroski’s social media feeds were flooded with bikini-clad beach photographs
Miller, who was still wearing her wedding dress, died at the scene. Hutchinson suffered two broken legs, extensive facial fractures and traumatic brain injuries.
Sobbing in court during the killer’s sentencing, Hutchinson later revealed his new wife’s final words moments before she died.
‘She said she didn’t want the night to end, I kissed her on the head, the next thing I knew I woke up in hospital,’ he said.
‘I wish I had died that night. I wish I had seen it coming. I’d have jumped off the golf cart so that you’d only have run me over. We did not get hit, we got ran through at 65mph.’
Before her sentencing, Komoroski was initially being held in custody without bond before being granted release on a $150,000 bond in March 2024.
Exclusive images obtained by the Daily Mail later showed Komoroski settling into her new home in an upscale enclave of Charleston – a world away from the cell she shared for ten months in Al Canon Detention Center, North Charleston.
