A Long Island mom allegedly ran over a 15-year-old boy with her car — twice — to avenge her bullied son.
Jennifer Nelson, 35, is now charged with attempted murder for allegedly slamming her car into the teen in the parking lot of a Manhattan Bagel shop in October, then running him over two times, because she believed he had earlier bullied and robbed her son.
Nelson then tried to trade in her leased 2020 Honda Passport for a different model to throw cops off her trail, prosecutors say.
“This defendant — an adult — allegedly thought she could take the law into her own hands to kill a 15-year-old in the process,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said in a statement Monday, as Nelson was indicted in the crime.
“This defendant’s incredibly misguided attempt to avenge the alleged victimization of her own child is no excuse,” he said. “Citizens cannot take the law into their own hands, and should instead work with law enforcement and my office to seek justice in every case.”
Authorities said two teenagers were later arrested in the alleged robbery of Nelson’s son, but the victim in the hit-and-run was not one of them.
According to prosecutors, an enraged Nelson had driven her car into the parking lot of a Dunkin’ Donuts across the street from William Floyd High School in Mastic Beach on Oct. 7 and confronted a group of teenagers while wielding a knife and a small bat.
The 15-year-old boy walked away and into the bagel shop parking lot — with Nelson getting back behind the wheel and following the teen, prosecutors said.
She slammed into him and knocked him to the ground, then “proceeded to drive over the victim, up onto a curb, reversed, drove over the victim again,” authorities said.
The boy suffered multiple fractures to his pelvis, six fractured ribs, a punctured lung and “numerous bruises and abrasions,” the DA’s office said in a release.
Long Island mom allegedly ran over teen — twice — to avenge her bullied son
Nelson then tried to trade in her leased 2020 Honda Passport for a different model to throw cops off her trail, prosecutors say.
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