A Yankees fan who got into a Red Sox-Yankees argument outside a bar in New Hampshire, aimed her car at a group of people to scare them but she didn't brake, hitting and killing Matthew Beaudoin.
"She accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly at this group of people," prosecutor Susan Morrell said.
"She indicated to police that she wanted to scare this group of people. She thought they would get out of the way."
Hernandez was arrested at the scene. She said she had been drinking and refused to take a breath-alcohol test.
She said she had been in an argument with the group.
Owner Lisa Slade said one of her bartenders, who was with Beaudoin after the bar closed, stopped at a bush to relieve herself.
Beaudoin and another girl, Maria Hughes, laughed at her. Slade said the bartender told her that a woman getting into her car thought Beaudoin and Hughes were laughing at her.
She said the woman punched the bartender. "My bartender got slapped in the face," Slade said.
At that point, the group saw a Yankees bumper sticker on Hernandez's car and "said something to her about being a Yankees fan," and the conflict escalated, Slade said.
Hernandez allegedly gunned her car and struck Beaudoin and Maria Hughes, 21. Hughes had only minor injuries, which Beaudoin's sister Faith said was because her brother shielded Hughes, a friend.
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