A Virginia woman was arrested after she mowed down and killed a celebrity real estate agent in Southampton, New York.
Authorities said 40-year-old Sara Burack, who once starred in Netflix’s ‘Million Dollar Beach House,’ was found unconscious and critically injured at 3 am on Thursday near Villa Paul Restaurant along Montauk Highway.
Burack was rushed to Stony Brook University Hospital where she was pronounced dead. According to reports, Burack suffered brain bleeds and a fractured skull.
The driver of the vehicle that fatally struck Burack, 32-year-old Amanda Kempton, was arrested on Friday after a manhunt.
According to The New York Post, Kempton said she was unaware that she hit someone. Kempton was at a tavern before the fatal hit and run, however her attorneys claimed alcohol was not a factor.
Kempton thought she hit a traffic cone. When she arrived to a friend’s home, she found Burack’s pink suitcase underneath her vehicle.
She is facing 7 years in prison.
The New York Post reported:
A Virginia woman arrested in the fatal hit-and-run death of hot shot Hamptons real estate agent Sara Burack thought she’d hit a traffic cone, her lawyer claimed during a Saturday morning court appearance.
Marine biologist Amanda Kempton pleaded not guilty and was released from police custody after her family, who live in Manorville, put up collateral in lieu of $100,000 bail, officials said during her arraignment in Southampton Town Justice Court.
Kempton, 32, choked back tears as prosecutor MacDonald Drane requested the high bail, describing her as a flight risk who fled the scene and who had been set to return to Virginia Saturday for a wedding.
She faces seven years in prison on a felony charge of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident in which there is a fatality.
The scientist allegedly spent time at a tavern before the Thursday incident in which she allegedly mowed down Burack in Hampton Bays, prosecutors said.
Alcohol is not considered a factor in the case, Kempton’s lawyer told the court.
