SHERIFF: Woman dies after drunk boyfriend runs her over
An Upshur County man is facing charges after authorities say he ran over his girlfriend with his truck while drunk.
UPSHUR COUNTY, W.Va (WDTV) - An Upshur County man is facing charges after authorities say he ran over his girlfriend with his truck while drunk.
Deputies were dispatched Saturday around 4:15 a.m. to a home on Salem Ridge Rd. in Rock Cave where they found a woman, identified by authorities as Arlene Philips, laying on the ground surrounded by medical personnel.
Harold Samples, who authorities identified as Philips’ boyfriend, was standing nearby and had “strong odor of alcoholic beverages coming from his person,” investigators wrote in a criminal complaint.
Samples told a deputy he had drank “four or five beers,” and ran over Philips as he was backing up, the complaint says. It also says numerous Bud Light cans were found at the scene.
Samples reportedly told deputies he did not mean to hurt Phillips.
Philips was flown to a hospital where she died later that morning, authorities said.
Deputies gave Samples field sobriety tests which he was unable to perform, according to the complaint.
Samples was arrested and is being charged with felony DUI causing death. He is being held at Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $100,000 cash-only bond.
Copyright 2023 WDTV. All rights reserved.
