A Minnesota woman faces serious accusations after allegedly being involved in a hit-and-run incident that injured a 3-year-old girl. According to court documents, the woman later filed an insurance claim, reporting to Nationwide that she had hit a “big rock” in an alley and subsequently found the child “crying over a toy.”

The accused, Dollara Muktar Mohamed, reportedly told Nationwide Insurance in a recorded statement that upon exiting her Kia Sorento on October 13 to assess the supposed rock damage, she discovered “a little girl lying on the ground.” The 32-year-old claimed in her statement that the child was neither struck nor hurt, as outlined in a criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County.

“She said she picked up the little girl and ‘dusted her off,'” the complaint details, referencing the recorded statement. Mohamed insisted she did not hit the child, describing the girl as “autistic” and upset over a toy. She also noted that the girl’s brother was present. Mohamed said she then left the area to drop her two friends off at a gas station.

According to police reports, the young victim and her brother were outside their Minneapolis home when Mohamed allegedly hit the child, who was “playing in the dirt” near their driveway, adjacent to the alley where the incident occurred. Authorities state that Mohamed briefly exited her vehicle to assess the situation before driving away from the scene.

Emergency services responded promptly, and the child was transported by ambulance to Hennepin County Medical Center. There, she was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit, having sustained “severe abrasions to the side of her face, a skull fracture, brain bleed, and a traumatic brain injury,” as detailed in the court documents.

Surveillance footage obtained from local businesses allegedly shows Mohamed and two passengers driving away from the scene of the hit-and-run. “Screaming and crying is heard on video,” the complaint says.

Mohamed is captured driving to a nearby convenience store and getting out in the parking lot with the passengers. “[Mohamed] watches the ambulance pass by as it heads to the scene,” the complaint recounts.

In the days following the crash, police investigators used the security footage to track down the owner of the Kia, who is related to Mohamed. They allegedly told cops that Mohamed and the family submitted an insurance claim with Nationwide about the incident, but she never mentioned hitting a child.

An investigator managed to reach Mohamed over the phone before her arrest, and she allegedly denied hitting anything but did confirm she was driving the Kia. “When the investigator confronted her with running over a 3-year-old child, [Mohamed] responded that the child ‘was not 3 years old’ and that ‘her mom neglected her outside,’” according to the complaint.

Mohamed was arrested on Dec. 12 and charged with felony criminal vehicular operation and failure to stop. Her bail was set at $75,000 and she remained behind bars Monday, with her next court date scheduled for Jan. 13, 2026.