Police determining intent of boyfriend who ran over, killed teen

After a Salt Lake City-area teen was fatally run over by her boyfriend Tuesday night, her family and the boyfriend are at odds over whether or not he did it intentionally.

Micaela Klalie Sigala, 17, of Millcreek, Utah, died Tuesday night after her boyfriend backed over her after an argument, KSL reported. Sigala’s aunt, Tiffani Chacon, said the two had been dating for two years and she was breaking up with him.

“She loved him, but she just knew they weren’t going anywhere and it was a bad thing,” she said. “We think she broke up with him and he couldn’t handle it. We’re assuming it was, ‘If I can’t have you nobody can.’”

The boyfriend posted a message on his Facebook page apologizing for what he had done, but insisted it was accidental. He said he was trying to leave the fight and did not see her behind him.

“In the heat of the moment, everybody gets angry and everybody makes mistakes,” Chacon said. “As a family, we understand that. We’re all grieving and we understand he is grieving, too. He has to live with what he did.”

Unified police are working to determine if the boy, whose name was not released, intentionally ran the girl over. He was not being held in custody.

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