Never-before-seen bodycam video shows the twisted moment bride killer Jamie Lee Komoroski sobbed for her dad and defiantly demanded to know why she was being arrested – just moments after she drunkenly mowed down a newlywed who was still in her wedding dress.
Komoroski, who is currently serving a 25-year sentence over the devastating wreck, ultimately admitted to crashing into Samantha Miller, 34, and her groom, Aric Hutchinson, 36, on their wedding night on Folly Island, South Carolina back in April 2023.
But new 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 that was transporting the newlyweds from their reception.
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 okay.
‘Is she okay,’ Komoroski, who was dressed in a bralette and overshirt, wailed loudly as she pointed at the wreck. ‘Make sure she’s okay.’
Roughly 30 minutes later, the bodycam footage showed a cop questioning Komoroski about how many drinks she had consumed before getting behind the wheel of her car.
‘I was driving and then all of a sudden something hit me,’ she slurred.
Initially, Komoroski denied having any alcohol but quickly claimed she had only consumed two drinks – specifically a ‘beer and an alcoholic beverage’ – throughout the night.
Newly released bodycam footage shows bride killer Jamie Lee Komoroski defiantly demanding to know why she had being arrested after drunkenly mowing down a newlywed who was still in her wedding dress on Folly Island, South Carolina in 2023
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 okay
Komoroski is currently serving a 25-year sentence over the devastating wreck that killed Samantha Miller, 34, and injured her groom, Aric Hutchinson, 36, on their wedding night
Pressed on what the other drink was, Komoroski then sputtered that she had downed a ‘a tequila pineapple.’
The officer asked Komoroski to rate how drunk she was on a scale of 1 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.
New 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 bride killer was sentenced to 25 years in prison after admitted to reckless homicide in Miller’s tragic demise
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 in Miller’s tragic demise.
Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, is pictured in a mugshot after the fatal crash
‘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 DailyMail.com 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 65 mph 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 newlyweds Samantha, 34, and Aric Hutchinson, 36
Surveillance footage from the road on which the crash took place, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, shows the golf cart carrying the bride and groom and two other family members slowly drive by
The couple’s mangled golf cart is pictured after the crash. The cart rolled multiple times and was thrown 100 yards by Komoroski’s Toyota Camry
Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show Jamie Lee Komoroski settling into her new home in an upscale enclave of Charleston after she was initially freed on bail
Miller, who was still wearing her wedding dress, tragically died at the scene. Hutchinson, who survived the crash, 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 DailyMail.com 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.
