Jamie Komoroski, accused of being drunk when she mowed down newlywed Samantha Hutchinson on her wedding day, asked her father from jail: “Why me, Dad, why me?”

Jamie Komoroski’s dad sympathized with his daughter in a jailhouse call where she whined about being locked away “so long” for drunkenly mowing down a bride on her wedding day, newly released video shows.

Komoroski, then 25, sobbed with her dad Charles in May 2023, a month on from the smash in Folly Beach, South Carolina and injured her husband, Aric.

Jamie Komoroski sobbed in a jailhouse call with her father.

“Because bad things happen to good people, honey,” her dad sympathized while calmly puffing on a cigar, without addressing the cause of his daughter’s arrest.

Later in the call, Komoroski bizarrely attacked the media and expressed fears about backlash potentially coming her way following her release 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.

Jamie Komoroski's father smoking a cigar during a jail call.
Komoroski’s dad tried to reassure her on the call.Charleston County Sheriff’s Office
Samantha and Aric Hutchinson celebrating their wedding with family and friends holding sparklers.
Komoroski was behind the wheel of a Toyota rental car when she smashed into a golf cart carrying Samantha Hutchinson and her husband Aric.GoFundMe

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.

Jamie Komoroski, the drunk driver who killed a newlywed, seen in footage following her arrest.
Komoroski was defiant while in custody following her initial arrest.

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% –of 0.08 in South Carolina.

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