'Claimed she hit a big rock': Kia driver who gave 3-year-old brain bleed told Nationwide she found the child 'crying over a toy' and accused the mother of neglect, police say

A Minnesota pistillate is accused of mowing down a 3-year-old girl successful a hit-and-run clang that she aboriginal filed an security assertion for — telling Nationwide agents she deed a "big rock" successful an alley and past recovered the kid "crying implicit a toy," according to tribunal documents.

Dollara Muktar Mohamed allegedly admitted to discovering "a small miss lying connected the ground" erstwhile she got retired of the Kia Sorento she was driving connected Oct. 13 to inspect the harm from the stone she said she hit. But the 32-year-old claimed successful a connection that was recorded by Nationwide Insurance that the kid was not struck oregon injured, according to a criminal complaint filed successful Hennepin County.

"She said she picked up the small miss and 'dusted her off,'" the ailment alleges, citing the recorded statement. "She claimed she did not deed the child, and that the kid was 'autistic' and crying implicit a toy. She said the small girl's member was lasting there. She said she near the country and dropped her 2 friends disconnected astatine the state station."

According to police, the unfortunate and her member were extracurricular unneurotic successful Minneapolis erstwhile Mohamed deed the 3-year-old arsenic she was "playing successful the dirt" adjacent their driveway, which is located by the alley wherever Mohamed said the clang happened. Cops accidental she "briefly got retired of the conveyance to spot what happened" and past got backmost into the car and fled the scene.

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Authorities and paramedics were called and the miss was transported by ambulance to the Hennepin County Medical Center, wherever she was admitted into the pediatric intensive attraction unit. The kid suffered from "severe abrasions to the broadside of her face, a skull fracture, encephalon bleed, and a traumatic encephalon injury," according to the complaint.

Surveillance footage obtained from section businesses allegedly shows Mohamed and 2 passengers driving distant from the country of the hit-and-run. "Screaming and crying is heard connected video," the ailment says.

Mohamed is captured driving to a adjacent convenience store and getting retired successful the parking batch with the passengers. "[Mohamed] watches the ambulance walk by arsenic it heads to the scene," the ailment recounts.

In the days pursuing the crash, constabulary investigators utilized the information footage to way down the proprietor of the Kia, who is related to Mohamed. They allegedly told cops that Mohamed and the household submitted an security assertion with Nationwide astir the incident, but she ne'er mentioned hitting a child.

An researcher managed to scope Mohamed implicit the telephone earlier her arrest, and she allegedly denied hitting thing but did corroborate she was driving the Kia. "When the researcher confronted her with moving implicit a 3-year-old child, [Mohamed] responded that the kid 'was not 3 years old' and that 'her ma neglected her outside,'" according to the complaint.

Mohamed was arrested connected Dec. 12 and charged with felony transgression vehicular cognition and nonaccomplishment to stop. Her bail was acceptable astatine $75,000 and she remained down bars Monday, with her adjacent tribunal day scheduled for Jan. 13, 2026.