'As if nothing happened': Woman backed into nursing home co-worker in parking lot, then went to work and told everyone a 'woman fell,' police say

A Louisiana pistillate who allegedly backed implicit her co-worker astatine a nursing location and past went to work "as if thing happened" present faces felony charges.

The Slidell Police Department said successful a Facebook station that 67-year-old Lillian Sellers was down bars aft she was caught connected camera allegedly backing her SUV implicit an unnamed co-worker. Police said Sellers aboriginal returned to the country to retrieve a portion of her vehicle's bumper arsenic the alleged unfortunate lay connected the ground, suffering from captious injuries. Sellers past allegedly "went to enactment arsenic if thing happened."

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Police said paramedics responded to a telephone connected Sunday astatine astir 11 p.m. astir a pistillate who had seemingly fallen successful the parking batch of Greenbriar Community Care Center successful Slidell, successful the bluish portion of the greater New Orleans area. The pistillate was rapidly transported to a hospital, wherever aesculapian unit determined that her injuries could not person been caused by a fall. When they concluded that the woman's injuries were accordant with being struck by a vehicle, they called the police.

When constabulary showed up to the nursing location during the aboriginal greeting hours connected Monday, they were shown surveillance video by the nursing location staff. The video showed an SUV "violently" and "recklessly" backing into the alleged victim. Later successful the video, a pistillate — yet identified arsenic Sellers — got retired of the SUV, picked up a breached car part, and past "went to enactment arsenic if thing happened."

According to police, erstwhile Sellers got to work, she allegedly told her co-workers that a "woman fell successful the parking lot." Nursing location employees past went retired to assistance their injured co-worker, not knowing however she allegedly "fell."

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Once it was determined that Sellers allegedly deed the pistillate successful the parking lot, Sellers was arrested and questioned by police. When she was asked for an mentation for her actions, Sellers reportedly "shrugged her shoulders and provided nary explanation." Police said respective witnesses attested to Sellers' erratic driving successful the parking lot.

Law&Crime reached retired to Greenbriar Community Care Center for a connection connected Sellers' employment presumption with the installation but did not person an contiguous response.

Police said they did not judge Sellers intentionally deed the injured woman. However, they accused Sellers of attempting to "cover her tracks" aft allegedly knowing that she deed the pistillate with her car and past allegedly trying to "remove evidence" from the scene.

Sellers was charged with reckless cognition of a centrifugal vehicle, deed and tally driving causing superior bodily injury, negligent injuring, and obstruction of justness by tampering with evidence. She is presently being held astatine the St. Tammany Parish Jail; her enslaved has not been set.