Samantha Hutchinson had been married for only hours.

The sparklers had burned, the photographs had been taken and the newlyweds were leaving their beachside wedding reception in a golf cart when a speeding car came tearing toward them.

The collision killed the 34-year-old bride and left her new husband, Aric Hutchinson, seriously injured.

Now, newly released footage from the night of the April 28, 2023 crash reveals what happened inside the police station as driver Jamie Lee Komoroski sat handcuffed—crying, protesting her innocence and demanding to call her father.

“I just wanna like, get this over with and go home,” Komoroski said from a chair at the Folly Beach police station in South Carolina.

But there would be no going home for Samantha.

Komoroski, now 27, had reportedly spent the evening visiting bars before getting behind the wheel of a rented Toyota Camry. Authorities said she was driving 65 mph through a 25 mph zone when she struck the golf cart carrying Samantha, Aric and two wedding guests.

Her blood-alcohol concentration was approximately three times the legal limit.

The force of the impact transformed a night of celebration into a scene of devastation. Samantha died, while Aric and the other passengers suffered serious injuries.

At the police station, however, Komoroski appeared consumed by the restrictions being placed on her.

“I can’t call my dad?” she asked after an officer told her that she was not yet permitted to make a phone call.

Then came denial.

“Well, what did I do?” she demanded.

“Nobody has any proof of anything that I did, so give me the right to call my dad.”

Footage obtained by WCSC shows Komoroski handcuffed with her arms behind her back. She was wearing a sports bra, an open flannel shirt and torn black jeans as her emotional protest escalated.

At one point, she apparently noticed a camera mounted on the wall.

She began speaking directly toward it.

“Oh, hi camera,” Komoroski said, explaining that she was crying because an officer would not let her call her father.

She insisted that police had not “proven” anything and argued that they had no right to prevent her from contacting her family.

Then her tone turned mocking.

“Ooh, I’m being just a little baby,” she said.

The footage is difficult to watch because viewers already know what Komoroski apparently had not yet fully confronted inside that room.

A woman was dead.

A newlywed husband who had expected to begin married life was instead suffering from catastrophic injuries and unimaginable grief.

Two other people had also been hurt.

The contrast is brutal: while one family’s future had been destroyed, Komoroski was focused on getting home and calling her father.

Her statements that night did not become her final legal position.

Komoroski ultimately pleaded guilty to felony driving under the influence, two counts of DUI causing great bodily injury or death, and reckless homicide. A judge sentenced her to 25 years in prison.

The guilty plea removed any doubt about legal responsibility for the crash. It also gave Samantha’s loved ones a measure of accountability, although no sentence could restore the life taken on her wedding night.

The newly released footage adds another painful layer to a tragedy already defined by horrifying details.

Images from the wedding show Samantha and Aric walking beneath a glowing tunnel of sparklers. She is still wearing her wedding dress. They appear surrounded by friends, family and the promise of an entire life ahead.

A short time later, that life was shattered.

Drunken-driving cases are often described through numbers: speed, blood-alcohol concentration, years in prison and counts in an indictment.

But behind those numbers is a sequence of choices.

Komoroski chose to drink. She chose to get behind the wheel. She drove at more than twice the posted speed limit. Those decisions ended Samantha’s life and permanently changed the lives of everyone riding beside her.

The police-station video captures the moment before Komoroski publicly accepted that reality.

Her demand to go home is particularly haunting because Samantha and Aric had also been trying to go home.

They never made it.

Komoroski’s behavior in the footage may have been affected by intoxication, panic and an incomplete understanding of what had happened. None of those factors excuses the crash or diminishes the suffering she caused.

The camera she mocked would preserve her words long after the alcohol had left her system.

Years later, those words have emerged beside the final judgment of the court: guilty.

Komoroski wanted the arrest finished so she could return to her life.

Instead, she received a 25-year sentence—and Samantha Hutchinson’s wedding night became the last night of hers.