A Westwego woman scheduled to head to trial later this month instead pleaded guilty to hitting a pedestrian with her car on Jefferson Highway in Old Jefferson , rolling over the victim's body, and speeding away without stopping to help or notify authorities.

Britney Holmes, 37, pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter and obstruction of justice, according to Jefferson Parish court records.

Holmes is accused of killing 37-year-old Sue Ellen Cechman, of Metairie, in a horrific crash that was recorded by a nearby business's surveillance camera.

Investigators with the State Police say Holmes was on the phone with a friend when she hit Cechman, and uttered the words, "These motherf---ers are trying to die out here," referring to people she'd spotted in the roadway just before the deadly cras

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