Suspected drunk driver charged with killing bride on marriage ceremony evening launched on bail

A 26-year-old girl going through murder prices in a South Carolina crash final yr that killed a bride on her marriage ceremony evening has been launched on bail.

Jamie Lee Komoroski was launched Friday after posting $150,000 bond, in accordance with Charleston County Sheriff’s Workplace inmate data. She had been jailed since April 2023 on one depend of reckless murder and three felony counts drunken driving leading to nice bodily harm.

CBS affiliate WCSC experiences that, in accordance with courtroom data, Komoroski shall be positioned on home arrest and can solely be allowed to go away her dwelling for medical emergencies or courtroom orders. She will even be required to put on an alcohol monitoring machine.  

On the evening of April 28, 2023, authorities mentioned Komoroski was behind the wheel of a rental automobile that rear-ended a golf cart carrying newlyweds Samantha Miller and Aric Hutchinson in Folly Seaside, a metropolis situated on Folly Island southeast of Charleston. They’d been married simply hours earlier, and Miller was nonetheless in her marriage ceremony costume.

Miller died within the crash and Hutchinson suffered a mind harm and quite a few damaged bones. Two different members of the family driving within the golf cart had been additionally injured.  

Komoroski had a blood alcohol degree about 3 times the state’s authorized restrict, in accordance with a toxicology report launched by the South Carolina State Regulation Enforcement Division. Investigators mentioned she was driving the automobile at about 65 miles per hour when she struck the golf cart.

Final October, Hutchinson reached a settlement in a wrongful demise lawsuit introduced towards two bars which he accused of overserving Komoroski earlier than the crash. 

— Emily Mae Czachor and Cara Tabachnick contributed to this report.