Newly released police bodycam footage shows Jamie Komoroski at the crash scene urging officers to check on Samantha Hutchinson after the deadly April 28, 2023 collision in Folly Beach. The clip captures Komoroski, then 25, asking, “Is she okay?” and yelling, “Go check on her,” while officers moved through the wreckage.
The footage matters now because it puts a direct, unfiltered record on top of a case that already ended with Samantha Hutchinson, 34, being pronounced dead in April 2023. Komoroski was driving a Toyota rental car at 65 mph when she hit the back of Hutchinson’s golf cart, and the bodycam shows the airbag deployed and smoke rising as she was helped to her feet before appearing to point toward Hutchinson’s body.
Just before 10:30 p.m. on April 28, a responding officer could be heard saying, “We can get a blanket and cover her up,” a line that lands with grim force when paired with what the footage shows at the roadside. The release also gives viewers a clearer look at the minutes after the crash, when Komoroski had spent an hour drinking at bars before the wreck and initially told police she had not had a drink before admitting to a beer and a tequila pineapple cocktail.
The new detail does not soften the larger fact pattern around the crash. Komoroski later said she had not done anything wrong and that nobody had proof of anything she did, even as an officer asked her at 10:56 p.m. to rate her impairment from 1 to 10. When she answered, “I would like a lawyer right now, honestly,” the exchange turned from roadside shock to the kind of recorded evidence investigators and juries tend to weigh heavily.
Komoroski also asked to call her dad and was refused, with an officer telling her she did not have a right to a phone call while in protective custody. She later complained at the police station that she wanted to “get it over with and go home,” then said, “I’m just being a little baby,” and mimicked the officer telling her to stop. The footage released by Folly Beach police adds new public detail to the aftermath, but it also leaves one question hanging: why it was released now, after so long, and how much more of the police record still has not been made public.
