US Mom Runs Over Teenager Twice For Allegedly Bullying Her Son

A 35-year-old Long Island woman is accused of running over a 15-year-old boy twice with her car because he had bullied and robbed her son.

In October, a teenager was allegedly attacked in the parking lot of a Manhattan bagel shop by Jennifer Nelson, a resident of Shirley in Suffolk County. The woman allegedly ran the teenager over twice with her car as retaliation for her son being bullied. Nelson allegedly tried to switch out her 2020 Honda Passport, which she had leased, for a different model in an effort to elude law enforcement.

In a statement released Monday as Nelson was indicted for the crime, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said that the defendant, an adult, "allegedly thought she could take the law into her own hands to kill a 15-year-old in the process."

"There is no justification for this defendant's incredibly misguided attempt to exact retribution for the alleged victimisation of her own child," he continued. In every case, citizens should work with law enforcement and my office to seek justice rather than attempting to uphold the law on their own.

Authorities claim that two teenagers were detained in connection with the alleged robbery of Nelson's son. But the hit-and-run victim was not one of them.

US Mom Runs Over Teen Twice

On October 7, Nelson had parked her car in a Dunkin' Donuts lot next to William Floyd High School in Mastic Beach. She approached a group of young people and attacked them with a knife and a small bat. Prosecutors claim that Nelson got back behind the wheel and pursued the 15-year-old as he walked away and entered the parking lot of the bagel shop.

She slammed into him, knocking him to the ground, and then, according to the authorities, "proceeded to drive over the victim, up onto a curb, reversed, and drove over the victim again." The victim suffered multiple pelvic fractures, six broken ribs, a punctured lung, and "numerous bruises and abrasions," the district attorney's office said in a statement.

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Nelson's attorney, Paul D'Emilia, called the district attorney's account of the incident "unfortunate and misleading" and claimed that the prosecution "attempted to conflate two separate events that day as one continuous occurrence" in an email to The Washington Post.

D' Emilia continued. "In the parking lot outside William Floyd High School, Nelson received a panicked phone call from her son, who was once again the target of physical abuse and bullying. When she arrived a short while later in her car, she discovered him without shoes and surrounded by tormentors. She drove to the junior high and senior high schools to report the incident and to try to recover her son's sneakers after defending him from his attackers."

The email further read, "A young man was hurt after hitting Nelson's car while a group of men were running through the streets, the man claimed. Nelson did not see or identify the injured young man. He claimed that the victim "ran off after the incident" and that his client was "completely taken by surprise" and unaware that the teen was running towards her car."