MIAMI — Newly-released body camera footage shows the arrest of a hit-and-run suspect in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office released about three minutes of video out of hours of material on Tuesday. The video was taken during the wee hours of May 30, after Miami police say Ivana Gomez, 32, struck 41-year-old Katherine Kipnis with her car and left her for dead.
“When she struck Ms. Kipnis, she hit the victim so hard that the victim’s head went into the vehicle, through the windshield and some of the victim’s hair got caught on the passenger’s seatbelt of the defendant’s vehicle,” a prosecutor said in court following Gomez’s arrest…