Grandmother Accused Of Killing Alleged Drug Dealer In Christmas Hit-And-Run

A Massachusetts woman was arraigned on several charges Tuesday stemming from a hit and run that left an alleged drug dealer dead Christmas morning.

The woman, Susan Dixon, 58, faced several charges including motor vehicle homicide and leaving the scene of an accident causing death. She pled not guilty.

Worcester District Court Judge Mark Goldstein ordered the woman held on $35,000 bail.

Prosecutors alleged that Dixon went to a BP Gas Station in Worcester around 5:30 a.m. Monday to buy crack cocaine from the victim, Felix Bonilla, 33.

“The victim was either hanging on her car or partially in her car when she drove away,” Assistant Worcester District Attorney Lisa Casella told the court.

Police said Felix Bonilla reached into the woman’s car when she took off. Dixon then allegedly slammed into a utility pole causing Felix Bonilla who was still on the car “severe” neck and torso trauma. Dixon’s driver’s license was revoked less than a month ago — the Registry of Motor Vehicles had declared her a habitual traffic offender. Dixon abandoned the car and police found her at home.

Felix Bonilla’s family denied that he was a drug dealer.

“How my brother is selling drugs? My brother came from Boston over here to spend time with his family,” said Melissa Bonilla, the man’s sister to WBZ. “We just want justice we want her out of the street. It’s the third time that she committed this.”

Prosecutors said this isn’t the first time Dixon has injured alleged drug dealers. Dixon was involved in two other hit-and-runs in 2015 and 2016, pleading guilty in both.

“They have almost the same exact M.O. as this case,” Casella told the Boston Herald.

Melissa Bonilla wanted to see the woman in jail.

“She has done this three times, and three times she has said the same thing — that it was over drugs,” Melissa Bonilla told the Boston Herald. “She dragged people, she has no license at all. ... Enough is enough. The other two people, thank God they’re alive. My brother was the one who died.”

Dixon served a 90-day jail sentence for a hit-and-run last year that occurred at the same gas station. An alleged female drug dealer was leaning into Dixon’s car when she took off, dragging the woman. The alleged drug dealer suffered a broken ankle, a collapsed lung and brain injury.