A woman from South Carolina faces charges of attempted murder for running over her husband with her SUV and then instructing her children to put him in the vehicle before driving away.
Brittany Rose Hernandez was arrested on Thursday for the incident which took place on Tuesday in Forest Acres.
The Forest Acres Police were alerted by a witness who saw a man being hit by a Chevy Traverse and dragged beneath it. The witness described how two children, who were in the SUV at the time, assisted in pulling the man out from under the vehicle.
After examining security footage in the vicinity, the police were able to identify Hernandez as the perpetrator. They discovered her whereabouts on Wednesday at her residence in Columbia, where they also found the injured 44-year-old man. The victim had sustained severe injuries and had not received medical attention; consequently, he was promptly transported to a hospital for treatment.
In a police report obtained by WACH, officers said Hernandez and her husband were fighting when they pulled into a parking lot in Forest Acres. Hernandez went inside, and when she returned, the husband had gotten out of the vehicle. Hernandez turned around and followed him.
The report says that surveillance video showed the man walking away from the vehicle, but Hernandez took a sharp turn into him, dragging him for about 10 feet. The cameras captured the children getting out and pulling their dad from under the car, then putting him in before Hernandez drove away.
Hernandez appeared before a judge on Friday and was given a $100,000 bond and ordered to have no contact with her husband, who was in critical condition with a broken jaw and a shattered orbital bone.
“If we hadn’t found him when we did, I’m not sure he would have been here the next day,” Forest Acres Police Chief Don Robinson said.
