Police released bodycam footage showing Jamie Lee Komoroski asking officers to check on Samantha Hutchinson after the April 28, 2023, crash in Folly Beach, South Carolina. The Jamie Lee Komoroski sentence was not stated in the release, but the video adds a detailed record of her immediate words after the deadly collision.
Komoroski was driving a Toyota rental car at 65 mph when she hit the back of Hutchinson’s golf cart, according to the footage and police account. Hutchinson, 34, was pronounced dead in Folly Beach after the crash, which happened minutes after her wedding reception.
Folly Beach bodycam footage
The video shows Komoroski telling bystanders, “Is she okay?” and then yelling, “Go check on her,” while an officer surveyed the wreckage. Her car’s airbag deployed, smoke was billowing into the air, and a responding officer said, “We can get a blanket and cover her up,” just before 10:30 p.m. on April 28.
Komoroski also said she “didn’t do anything wrong” while sitting roadside. Later, an officer asked her at 10:56 p.m. to rate how impaired and intoxicated she felt on a scale of 1 to 10, and she answered, “I would like a lawyer right now, honestly.”
Jamie Lee Komoroski and police
After that exchange, Komoroski asked to call her dad. Police refused that request, and she later complained at the station that she wanted to get it over with and go home. She said, “Nobody has any proof of anything I did.”
The station footage shows a sharper break between what Komoroski said at the scene and what officers were recording. An officer told her she did not have a right to a phone call while in protective custody, and later said, “You’re a grown adult and you’re crying on camera.”
Samantha Hutchinson’s death
Komoroski replied, “Yeah, hello, I’m crying because he’s not letting me call my f–king father even though they haven’t proven s–t,” and added, “I’m just being a little baby.” Those statements sit beside the crash footage itself, which captures her asking about Hutchinson while the wreckage was still being examined.
The release leaves the legal outcome unresolved in the source, including what sentence Komoroski received. The footage now gives the public a clearer timeline of the minutes after the crash, from the roadside pleas to the police station encounter.
