29-year-old woman charged with running people over outside of Frank's Place

South Bend Police Department

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Prosecutors charged 29-year-old, Shakura Wells, after they say she ran over three people and dragged a woman through the street using her car.  

On Jan. 7, at approximately 4:20 p.m., South Bend Police Department was dispatched to Frank's Place. 

According to the case file, Wells got into an argument with the passenger in her vehicle over a food container in her car.

The passenger was outside of the car at the time, along with her daughter and another woman.

After a brief struggle, investigators said Wells reversed her car, running over the three passengers.

A purse belonging to one of the women was left in the car.

Wells admitted she threw it in a dumpster near Memorial Hospital.

Wells was charged Tuesday with three counts of Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon, a level five felony, three counts of Criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon, a level six felony, three counts of Leaving the Scene of an Accident causing Bodily Injury, a misdemeanor, and one count of Theft, a misdemeanor.

A court date has not been set. 

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