Young woman charged with murder after allegedly driving SUV into pedestrian she knew

Police allege the 24-year-old mounted the footpath and deliberately hit the 23-year-old mother in Daisy Hill in south-east Brisbane

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A young woman has been charged with the murder of another young woman, who had just dropped her daughter off at daycare and was allegedly run down and killed while walking along a Brisbane footpath.

Police will allege a 24-year-old woman was behind the wheel of an SUV that mounted the footpath and deliberately struck the 23-year-old mother in Daisy Hill in Brisbane's south-eastern outskirts shortly before 9am on Friday.

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