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Amara Smothers, 47, of Mattapan, is accused of killing Darnella Grossett-Kellam, 51, a woman she had known for several years, during a heated argument in March 2017, the prosecutor said.
Smothers, who had been drinking, got into a Dodge Caravan and intentionally backed it onto the sidewalk near Julien and Galen streets and over Grossett-Kellam, officials said. She then put the car in drive and sped away.
Smothers called Boston police about 25 minutes later, claiming Grossett-Kellam had robbed her. But officers noticed she appeared highly intoxicated, and the scene seemed odd, the prosecutor alleged.
Paramedics rushed Grossett-Kellam to a hospital with a crushed leg bone. She spent two weeks in the hospital and rehab center to mend her broken leg, but a day after she returned home from Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton, Grossett-Kellam died of a pulmonary embolism caused by her injuries, the prosecutor said.
Smothers is charged with:
- Second-degree murder
- Manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol
- Motor vehicle homicide
- Leaving the scene of a crash causing personal injury
- Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon
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