« I’m still trying to wrap my head around it, that night, going from an all-time high to an all-time low, » Aric Hutchinson said.
doesn’t remember the crash, but he does recall his bride’s last words to him before the golf cart carrying them along a South Carolina beach road from their wedding reception was hit by a car driven by a woman who authorities say was drunk.
« The last thing I remember her saying was she wanted the night to never end, » he said in a tearful interview broadcast Friday by ABC’s « Good Morning America. »
The bride, , 34, was killed in the . Hutchinson and two other passengers were injured. A toxicology report showed the driver of the car, Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, had a blood alcohol level of 0.261 – . She is charged with reckless vehicular homicide and three counts of driving under the influence causing death or great bodily injury. Komoroski is currently being held without bond at a local jail, according to Charleston County Sheriff’s Office online records.
In a statement to CBS News, Komoroski’s defense attorney, Chris Gramiccioni, asked the public not to rush to judgment.
« We cannot fathom what the families are going through and offer our deepest sympathies, » Gramiccioni said. « We simply ask that there not be a rush to judgment. Our court system is founded upon principles of justice and mercy and that is where all facts will come to light.
