Police in Miami Township, Ohio, responded to a home after a woman allegedly ran over her mother in a garage. (Miami Township police)
A 23-year-old Ohio woman is facing a murder charge after she allegedly killed her mother when she hit her with a car in the home’s garage.
Police in Miami Township, a suburb of Cincinnati, responded Saturday to a home on Deerhaven Court for a domestic disturbance between a mother and daughter. When cops arrived they saw a woman later identified as 64-year-old Joyce Millette, pinned up against the wall of a garage by a car. The car, its horn blaring, had broken down part of the wall.
Two officers found her daughter, Anna Millette, in the driver’s seat. They tried to remove her from the car so they could get to the victim. The officers noticed she was getting ready to take off, body camera footage showed.
“Stop! Stop! Stop!,” the officers said as they pulled at the door and busted out the window. “Get out of the car!”
Anna Millette allegedly slammed the car in reverse, knocking over one of the officers. She sped out from the driveway and into the street before taking off, tires screeching, cops say. Police gave chase to her and she eventually crashed on I-275 near Loveland. Officers took her into custody by tasing her, cops said. First responders transported her to the hospital. They also rushed Joyce Millette to the hospital where doctors later pronounced her dead.
The officers in the garage suffered minor injuries. Cops haven’t said what spurred the daughter to allegedly commit the felonious act, but this isn’t the first time she was accused of hitting someone with a vehicle.
Miami Township officers responded to a home on Deerhaven Court on May 28, 2022, for a man struck by a car. When cops arrived, they found a 19-year-old bleeding profusely from his head, a criminal complaint said. He alleged Anna Millette had hit him with her car “on purpose” because he broke up with her.
A witness told cops that the man was walking in a yard when Anna Millete reportedly drove by him. She allegedly turned the car around and then “accelerated at a high rate of speed driving into the yard” where the man was standing and hit him, the complaint said. She then drove to a nearby home and walked inside while yelling at the man, cops said.
More on Law&Crime: ‘She is a coward’: Mother has harsh words for socialite who killed her 2 young sons while street racing through residential neighborhood
Officers tried to get Millette to come out but refused so they had to obtain a warrant to go into the home and arrest her. Prosecutors charged her with two counts of felonious assault, aggravated vehicular assault and leaving the scene of an accident, records show. She pleaded guilty to felonious assault in January 2023 and was sentenced to jail. She was released in August and was slated to be on probation through October, court records say.
Have a tip we should know? [email protected]
