The Long Island woman who hit and killed an anti-gang activist with her car on the same spot where the crusader’s daughter was slain by MS-13 two years earlier made a frantic 911 call after the collision.

“I just ran over somebody. She’s in the street. She’s not moving,” AnnMarie Drago, 59, told the 911 operator. “I think I ran over her head. There’s blood. She’s not moving.”

The woman on the ground was Evelyn Rodriguez, who had become a national voice against gang violence following her daughter Kayla Cuevas’ murder.  Drago was later charged with criminally negligent homicide in Rodriguez’s death.

A transcript of the 911 call is part of the court file in Drago’s case, which is set to begin trial this week in state court in Central Islip, Newsday reported.

The call came in about 4:15 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2018, according to court records.

The deadly incident sprung from a tense standoff over a memorial to Rodriguez’s daughter, which was placed near Drago’s mother’s home. The family had been unable to sell the property, and blamed mourners who repeatedly showed up.

The memorial, in place for a planned vigil to the dead girl that night, had been removed just prior to Rodriguez being struck.

Drago claimed Rodriguez had “tried to attack” her, according to the 911 call. “It’s where the memorial is in Brentwood. You need to get here. …I (expletive) killed this woman! … Oh, my God.”

Rodriguez, 50, had attended President Trump’s State of the Union address earlier that year. Prosecutors say Rodriguez and Kayla’s father, Freddy Cuevas, blocked Drago’s Nissan before Drago stepped on the gas and knocked Rodriguez to the ground before the Nissan’s front and rear left tires ran her over.

The incident was captured on video by a News 12 Long Island crew in the neighborhood to cover the planned vigil. The video, like the 911 call, will be part of the evidence presented to the jury.

Final jury selection is expected to start Monday. Drago faces up to 1 and 1/3 to 4 years in prison. She has pleaded not guilty.

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