A Long Island mother intentionally drove over a 15-year-old boy with her vehicle twice, believing he was involved in robbing her son, according to prosecutors.
Jennifer Nelson, 35, of Shirley, New York, was arraigned Monday on charges of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting resulting in serious injury, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Monday.
The charges stem from the alleged hit-and-run Oct. 7. Nelson’s attorney disputes the district attorney’s account.
On that day, Nelson allegedly drove her 2020 Honda Passport to a Dunkin’ Donuts across from William Floyd High School in Shirley to confront students “who participated in a robbery targeting her son earlier that day,” the news release said. She believed the students were still in the parking lot at the chain.
Once in the parking lot, she “threatened a group of students while brandishing a knife and a small bat,” prosecutors said.
During this incident, the 15-year-old victim left the parking lot and walked across the street to the parking lot of an eatery called Manhattan Bagel.
Nelson then allegedly re-entered her vehicle, left the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot, entered the parking lot of Manhattan Bagel at “a high rate of speed,” and “drove directly at the victim who was standing in the parking lot,” the release said.
Her vehicle allegedly struck the victim, who fell to the ground.
She then “proceeded to drive over the victim, up onto a curb, reversed, drove over the victim again, and then fled the scene,” according to county prosecutors.
Later that evening, she allegedly tried to conceal her car by trading it in for a new model, even though her lease was not set to expire, officials said.
The victim suffered “serious physical injury including multiple fractures of the pelvis, six fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and numerous bruises and abrasions,” the…
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