Newly released jailhouse video shows Jamie Komoroski’s father expressing sympathy for his daughter as she cried about being behind bars “so long” after the drunken crash that killed a bride on her wedding day.
Komoroski, who was 25 at the time, broke down during a May 2023 call with her father, Charles, about a month after the Folly Beach, South Carolina, collision that killed 34-year-old newlywed Samantha Hutchinson and injured her husband, Aric.
“I still just don’t know why this had to happen to me,” Komoroski said through tears in footage of the jailhouse call viewed by KSLA.
“Because bad things happen to good people, honey,” her father replied, offering comfort without directly discussing the circumstances that led to her arrest.
“It’s just something that happened to you, and we are going to deal with it as best as we can, okay,” he added, attempting to reassure her during the call.
Komoroski continued to cast herself as a victim, saying, “I just can’t believe this happened to me. Why me, Dad, why me?”
At another point in the conversation, Komoroski criticized the attention surrounding the case and voiced concern about the reaction she might face after being released from custody.
“That’s just, like, makes me scared that the media is so involved in it,” she said. “Why are they so involved in it?”
Charles claimed it was because her case “sold newspapers,” but Komoroski just complained even more.
“But that’s not going to help me like, Oh my God. It’s going to be so bad when I get out. Everybody’s going to be so mean to me,’ she said.
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Komoroski sobbed as her dad warned, “You got to get tough.”
“I’m just scared, dad,” she said. “I don’t want to go away for so, so long.”
“Well, listen, we’re doing everything we can,” he said, desperately trying to ease her concerns.
Komoroski was sentenced to 25 years in prison in December 2024 after pleading guilty to felony DUI, two counts of DUI causing great bodily injury or death and reckless homicide.
She was driving her Toyota rental car at 65mph when she smashed into the golf cart carrying newlywed couple Samantha and Aric.
Samantha, 34, was flung from the cart and was pronounced dead at the scene. Aric, 36, was hospitalized with facial injuries.
A defiant Komoroski refused to follow police instructions at the scene and moaned that cops didn’t grant her a call to her father while in custody following her initial arrest.
“I just wanna like, get this over with and go home,” she told one cop.
She also asked, “What did I do?” refusing to acknowledge the severity of the crash.
She refused to provide a breath sample – despite being arrested on allegations of DUI.
Komoroski was later found with a blood alcohol content of 0.261% – more than three times the legal limit of 0.08 in South Carolina.
