Kerri Bedrick, the Centerport woman accused of killing her 9-year-old son, Eli, when she drove the wrong way on the Southern State Parkway while intoxicated by methamphetamine and crashed into multiple vehicles, "didn't seem to have a care in the world" as she spoke to investigators moments afterward, according to grand jury testimony.

State Trooper Jayson Sullivan, one of several troopers who responded to the crash, said Bedrick "wasn't yelling, screaming. She was just very, like, low, and just didn't seem to have a care in the world."

The testimony of the state trooper — one of several witnesses who included law enforcement officers, an emergency medical technician and drivers who Bedrick crashed into — was presented before a grand jury that ultimately voted to indict her on 21 counts, including second-degree murder, manslaughter, aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child in the Aug. 22, 2024, crash.

Bedrick, 33, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Her attorneys, in a motion filed last week, argued for the dismissal of the murder charges and said they may claim "battered woman syndrome" as a defense after she allegedly endured violent attacks by the boy's father.

The grand jury testimony, which provides some of the most vivid witness accounts of the events surrounding the crash, was attached to the defense motion.

Suffolk County Deputy Sheriff Aidan Pagano, of the sheriff's DWI enforcement effort, described in his testimony the harrowing 5-mile chase of Bedrick's vehicle as it drove at high speeds in the wrong direction.

He had his lights and sirens on and was driving beside her, attempting to get her to pull over.

"She went around me and just accelerated," Pagano said, adding that he ultimately stopped the pursuit for safety reasons.

Bedrick "was looking ahead" and "didn't look over to acknowledge me or anything," he said.

Five seconds before the crash, Bedrick's SUV was traveling at 88 mph, according to the vehicle data recorder of her Mitsubishi Eclipse, testified Robert Bartsch, of the state police's Crime Scene Reconstruction Unit.

Sullivan, the state trooper, testified that he asked Bedrick if she had taken any drugs.

"She told me initially that she took the methamphetamine yesterday," Sullivan said. "I then asked her again, and she advised she was unsure if she took it yesterday or today."

He said her eyes were "glassy and her pupils were very dilated," and "she had very slow, slurred speech."

Trooper Anthony Fazio testified that he saw Eli, who was wearing a seat belt, lying unconscious in the back seat. Eli had a "huge gash" on his head and was bleeding from his mouth, Fazio said.

Trooper Marc Calabro said Bedrick mentioned her son while he interviewed her.

"She said, ‘Eli, Eli, can I hold his hand?’ ” he said.

Asked to comment on the grand jury testimony, Bedrick’s defense attorney David Besso reiterated that the district attorney’s office incorrectly brought murder charges against Bedrick.

“She was sleep-deprived and she had just been in a terrible accident, and she was probably in a state of shock,” Besso said. “Their observations of her were really ridiculous.”

Besso also dismissed the descriptions of his client's demeanor, saying he would have his own expert toxicologist testify that someone with what he has called a "low, therapeutic" amount of methamphetamine found in Bedrick’s system “wouldn’t have those symptoms.”

Besso said Bedrick was “separated from her son” at the crash scene and “was in severe shock due to what was going on.”

“She wasn’t told that he had passed away until the next morning when she was in court," he said.

Haydee Meyer, a Center Moriches woman who was driving a Mercedes SUV that was struck by Bedrick the night that Eli was killed, said she saw police officers giving aid to the boy outside the vehicle immediately after the crash.

"And what surprised me after was that if I was the one to receive CPR, I believe my parents would be screaming my name, they would be crying out," Meyer said. "But I couldn't hear any other — anyone crying out, anyone screaming. And it was strange. I thought that, you know, why wasn't anyone else crying, seeing this little boy on the ground almost dead?"

She testified that she later sat "within arm's reach" of Bedrick inside an ambulance at the scene while both women were checked out by emergency medical technicians after the crash.

"The first thing she did when she entered the ambulance was ask for her medications, which I later found surprising because why didn't she ask for her son?" Meyer said. "And she asked for her medications ... And the officer asked her, ‘What are these pills?’ And she said, ‘methamphetamine.’ ”

Bedrick appeared "tired" and "exhausted" and was at times mumbling in response to questions, she said. She was not crying, Meyer said.

"She was talking incoherently," Meyer said. "She got asked where she got these pills from. She said her boyfriend. They asked her what's her boyfriend's name, and she said she can't say because Hamas got hired — her boyfriend hired Hamas to get her to him. Then she got asked, what was the president of the United States? She couldn't recall and then at the end she couldn't recall. She got asked where she was at the time and she couldn't recall that either."

Emergency Medical Technician Alexa Detore testified that she asked Bedrick questions like where she was going. "She stated that ... she was fleeing the state because people were after her due to the Gaza invasion because she was Mother Teresa," she said.

Detore said she put a medical collar around her neck and brought her to the hospital.

"She was aware that she was in a car accident," Detore said. "She was aware that she was traveling the incorrect direction on Southern State Parkway. And she did admit to me that she was traveling at 80 miles an hour."

Besso dismissed the assertion that his client’s vehicle was driving 88 mph five seconds before the crash.

“She had an old car that was incapable of going 88 miles an hour,” he said of her 2022 Mitsubishi. “A lot of things they’re saying, just aren’t true.”