Woman charged for running over ex-boyfriend

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) A Fort Wayne woman has been charged for intentionally hitting her ex-boyfriend repeatedly with her car and breaking his leg.

Police responded to a reported hit and run just after midnight on Sat. Sept. 22 and found a man on the pavement in front of the St. Joe Apartment complex at the 3300 block of Academic Place

According to the police report Katie L. Miller, 22, picked her ex-boyfriend up from a party and drove him back to the apartment complex to pick up his dog.

While driving there, the ex-boyfriend told police, an argument about him being at the party started. Miller parked the car outside the complex and they continued to argue about why she left him. Miller told him to get out of the car. Once out, he tried to get back in and get a phone he said he had left in the car.

The ex-boyfriend told police she then started pull out of the parking spot to leave and he stepped in front of the car. He said "she kept bumping me with the bumper of the car." He said he backed up and was asking for his phone.

He said she then "hit the gas" and hit him hard enough that he ended up on the hood of the car. He grabbed the windshield wiper arm to try to regain balance as he slid off the hood.

He said he heard Miller say "look what you did to my car," as she began to drive away. Then, he said, she "ran over my leg; I heard it pop... I begged her to take me to the hospital but she just looked at me and left."

Medics on the scene told police he had suffered a compound fracture of the left lower leg that had broken through the skin.

The ex-boyfriend told police they had dated for about three years but had broken up four months before the incident.

Miller is facing a felony battery charge and a charge of misdemeanor criminal recklessness. On Monday, she was in custody and being held at Allen County Lockup in lieu of $10,750 bail.