Family displaced after suspected drunk driver crashes into their home while they slept

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A North Las Vegas family was forced to move after they say a driver who was under the influence crashed into their home, with the car nearly going into their bedroom in the middle of the night.

The family said the car hit their backyard wall with so much force that bricks flew into their bed while they slept and one brick nearly missed their heads.

“We woke to a blunt sound, where it sounded like it was a plane crash, you know, with all the stuff going on you just never know and with us being by Nellis (Air Force Base), we thought that is what had happened,” Calena Washington said.

Washington explained on February 9, she and her husband were sleeping in their bedroom on the second floor when they woke up to the sound and found a car had crashed into the back of their two-story home.

“It was super dark, I heard this silent ‘help, help’ and I was like somebody hit the house, by the time I got downstairs I saw her standing there at the doorway,” she said.

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Washington said the woman behind the wheel was drunk.

“There was a rail (on the deck) and I believe that stopped her, the rail is bent up but I believe that stopped her from going into our bedroom where we were sleeping.”

She said her family’s home was destroyed, but the hardest part has been living with the trauma from the night of the crash, including the aftermath which showed how lucky she and her husband are to be alive.

“My daughter came over and she said ‘Mom did you see the brick in the wall above your head?’, I said no, I went back upstairs and I lost it because had we raised our bed headboard that night that brick would have stuck in our head, it would have hit us, the other bricks did hit us, we had scratches and bruises, some cuts, glass that was on my feet.”

She says after the car went airborne and hit the railing on the second floor, then dropped into the backyard.

The car had to be pulled out of Washington’s backyard with a specialized tow truck.

“Drinking and driving now is bad and I think that there should be some type of laws, new laws put in place because they (drivers) are not taking it seriously, I believe people are not taking this seriously, the young lady could have lost her life as well, she had a scratch on her leg and that is it,” she said.

Washington said the woman’s actions left her home uninhabitable and her family had to relocate to Henderson.

Woman pleads guilty to crashing into home while drunk

By K8 Newsdesk

Published: Aug. 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM GMT+7|Updated: Nov. 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM GMT+7

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) – A 29-year-old woman was sentenced to three years’ probation Friday after pleading guilty to crashing into a house while driving drunk and fleeing the scene.

Mariah A. Brewer pleaded guilty Nov. 14 to the following charges:

• Failure to stop after an accident with property damage greater than $10,000, a Class D felony
• Second-degree criminal mischief-damage greater than $5,000, a Class D felony
• Violation of the omnibus DWI Act, an unclassified misdemeanor

In exchange for her pleas, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge Randy Philhours sentenced Brewer to 36 months of probation on the first two charges and 12 months suspended imposition of sentence on the DWI charge with one day of jail time credit.

The judge also ordered her to pay all court costs and fines in $75 monthly installments beginning Dec. 1.

According to the probable cause affidavit, on Aug. 26 at 2:26 p.m., police responded to a single-vehicle crash involving a home on Rosemond Avenue.

The police report stated a 2014 Hyundai Sonata “ran into the corner of the residence next to the garage, causing significant structural damage.” Officials estimated repairs would cost $15,000.

Dispatch informed the officers en route that the driver, later identified as Brewer, was “staggering down the road” in an attempt to flee the scene.

Upon arriving at the scene, the fire department informed police which way Brewer went.

Officers pursued the suspect and found Brewer around the corner “laying face down in the grass.”

“Officers noticed her eyes were bloodshot and she was slow to respond,” the affidavit noted.

Police took Brewer to a hospital, where she admitted to having “four to six glasses of wine.”

Law enforcement obtained a warrant for a blood draw, then arrested her.

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US woman jailed for 25 years over drunk-driving crash that killed newlywed

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Jamie Lee Komoroski, 27, pleaded guilty over death of Samantha Miller, who was killed leaving wedding in 2023

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A woman who admitted to drinking and who was driving well over twice the speed limit when she smashed into a golf cart, killing a bride who had just got married at a South Carolina beach, was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison.

Jamie Lee Komoroski, 27, pleaded guilty at the Charleston county courthouse to reckless homicide, felony DUI causing death and two counts of felony DUI causing great bodily injury before her sentencing.

Police said she drank in several bars on 28 April 2023 and was driving 65mph on a narrow Folly Beach road with a speed limit of 25mph when she slammed into the golf cart, which was leaving a wedding.

The bride, 34-year-old Samantha Miller, died still wearing her wedding dress. The groom suffered a brain injury and numerous broken bones. The cart was thrown 100 yards (91 meters) by the crash.

The groom, Aric Hutchinson, will receive $863,300 in a financial settlement connected to the wreck, according to reports from June. Hutchinson has spoken about losing his wife, describing her as an “amazing human being who should never have been taken”.

In an interview with ABC, he broke down as he struggled to recall the incident. “The last thing I remember her saying is she wanted the night to never end,” Hutchinson told Good Morning America (GMA).

“I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. That night going from an all-time high to an all-time low, it’s pretty tough to try to comprehend,” said Hutchinson on GMA, but declined to comment on Komoroski.

After pleading guilty, Komoroski said she realized now she was addicted to alcohol and did not care how her actions affected others. She promised to spend the rest of her life helping addicts and warning of the dangers of drinking and driving. She said she was “devastated, deeply ashamed and sorry” for what she did.

“I wish I could go back and undo this terrible tragedy. But I cannot. I will live the rest of my life with intense regret for what happened that night,” she said.

Before the sentencing, Miller’s father told Komoroski he was disgusted that she appeared to never take responsibility. He told her she could apologize, but he would not listen to a word.

“The rest of my life I’m going to hate you and when I arrive in hell and you come there, I will open the door for you,” Brad Warner said. “You have ruined so many people’s lives.”

Komoroski, 27, pleaded guilty at the Charleston county courthouse to reckless homicide, felony DUI causing death and two counts of felony DUI causing great bodily injury.

The bride’s mother had previously lashed out at Komoroski, saying she made “a conscious choice” that turned deadly.

“It wasn’t an accident,” Lisa Miller said to Fox News. “This person chose to drink, get behind the wheel and plow down my daughter. This is a conscious choice that a young lady made.”

The Guardian contributed reporting