Jamie Lee Komoroski was sentenced to more than two decades behind bars following her guilty plea in a Charleston County courtroom Monday afternoon.

Komoroski pleaded guilty to a charge of felony DUI, two counts of DUI causing great bodily injury or death and one count of reckless homicide. The charges stem from a Folly Beach DUI crash that killed bride Samantha Miller on her wedding night in April 2023 and injured three others, including Miller's new husband Aric Hutchinson.

Following the hearing, Judge Deadre Jefferson sentenced Komoroski to 25 years for reckless homicide, 15 years for the two counts of DUI involving great bodily injury and 10 years for the felony DUI charge. The sentences are concurrent, meaning Komoroski will spend 25 years in prison, Jefferson said.

Police say Komoroski was driving 65 mph in a 25 mph zone and her blood alcohol level was three times over the legal limit. Miller died at the scene. She was still wearing her white wedding dress.

READ MORE |

Komoroski was in custody from April 29, 2023, to March 1, 2024, when Judge Michael Nettles then granted her bond after they were unable to begin her trial.

Komoroski was initially denied bond in August of 2023 as she was deemed a flight risk. However, since officials were unable to start her trial by March 2024, she was granted a $150,000 bond.

The deadly crash happened on April 28, 2023, on the 1200 block of East Ashley Avenue around 10:15 p.m.

According to the affidavits, a responding officer observed a large crash scene with a golf cart (later identified by police as an LSV) with its side up against a grey Toyota Camry. The officer also saw multiple victims lying throughout the crash site.

READ MORE |

When the officer located Miller, she was not breathing and had no pulse. The officer focused life-saving measures on her, but she was pronounced deceased on the scene.

The other patients were in and out of consciousness, the officer said in the affidavits, noting that two had "open fractures and massive trauma to the body."

Staff at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) later told officers two patients were in critical condition and one might not make it through the night.

Komoroski was then arrested and charged with three counts of felony DUI with death and or great bodily injury and one count of reckless vehicular homicide.

When police approached her on the scene, an officer noticed an odor of alcohol coming from her breath and person. When asked if she had anything to drink, Komoroski said she had a beer and a drink with tequila about an hour earlier.

When asked where she felt on a scale of one to 10 – completely sober to the most impaired – she said eight.

According to the affidavits, when she stood up, she was "very unsteady" on her feet and almost fell down – the officer said they helped her stand.

Documents show Komoroski refused a field sobriety test and became uncooperative on scene. At the police station, she also refused to provide a breath sample. A warrant for two vials of blood was obtained and taken by nurses at MUSC. They were sent to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division for analysis.

According to the affidavits, Komoroski was booked under suicide watch at Charleston County jail because she told an officer at the hospital she wanted to kill herself.

Komoroski and her former employer, Taco Boy, are still entangled in the wrongful death lawsuit. However, with the criminal proceedings wrapping up, the pathway is now clear for civil complaints to play out.