The woman accused of a hit-and-run murder of a young mother can be revealed as a mum-of-three and petting zoo assistant.
Larissa Rita Mae-Leigh Sant, 24, is alleged to have deliberately driven her Toyota Landcruiser Prado into Kiesha Thompson, 23, as she was walking home on Friday.
Ms Thompson was on the footpath after dropping off her daughter at daycare in Daisy Hill, south of Brisbane, when she was allegedly ran down.
Ms Thompson died in hospital that night and police later charged Sant with her murder.
Daily Mail can reveal Sant has three young sons and worked at a Brisbane petting zoo.
Her social media accounts are filled with selfies and posts about her tumultuous love life, desires for relationships and videos of herself dancing.
Police at the scene of a fatal hit and run in Daisy Hill
‘Stuck between wanting my happy ever after and never wanting to loose [sic] what I have,’ one post reads.
‘How am I supposed to choose when the time comes.’
Police will allege the incident was premeditated and Sant was driving the silver 4WD SUV in the area for an extended period of time before the Daisy Hill crash.
‘We will allege that that event was not in fact an accident, and the young lady who has tragically lost her life, was in fact targeted,’ Detective Inspector Chris Knight told reporters on Sunday.
‘For that reason we don’t believe that it was an unfortunate, random traffic accident.’
Sant was remanded in custody after her matter was mentioned in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Monday.
She was not able to apply for bail due to the serious nature of the charge.
Police said they seized a damaged silver Toyota Prado at Goodna, west of Brisbane on Saturday while the 24-year-old was arrested a few suburbs away at Yamanto.
Police described the incident as far from typical but declined to comment on any relationship between the pair.
Asked if it was a case of domestic violence, Det Insp Knight said: ‘It is not as simple as that’.
Police are appealing for dashcam footage and asked the driver, owner or passengers on a white, unbranded bus seen in the vicinity shortly before 9am on Friday to come forward.
Sant’s matter has been adjourned to appear in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on July 31.
Police are calling for the driver and passengers to come forward following an unrelated fatal crash