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Police arrest driver in deadly drunk driving crash, identify woman killed

Omaha Police identified the victim as 44-year-old Gina McKenna.

Police arrest driver in deadly drunk driving crash, identify woman killed

Omaha Police identified the victim as 44-year-old Gina McKenna.

WITH BREAKING NEWS AND THAT BREAKING NEWS COMES OUT OF OMAHA TONIGHT POLICE CONFIRMED ONE PERSON IS KILLED IN A CRASH. I’M JULIE CORNELL. I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. TAKE A LIVE LOOK AT THE SCENE. IT’S NEAR 74TH AND DODGE, THE CRASH HAPPENED AROUND 9:00 TONIGHT. WE DO KNOW IN ADDITION TO THE FATALITY OF SECOND PERSON WAS TAKING TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION POLICE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED ANYONE INVOLVED IN THIS YET OR WHAT
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Police arrest driver in deadly drunk driving crash, identify woman killed

Omaha Police identified the victim as 44-year-old Gina McKenna.

Omaha police identified the woman killed in a fiery crash Sunday evening near Rose Blumkin and Dodge. Investigators said just before 9 p.m. an Audi A4, driven by a suspected drunk driver slammed into Gina McKenna, 44, at a high rate of speed. The impact forced her Nissan Sentra into a wooden pole and caught fire. McKenna died on the scene. The other driver has been identified as Michael Packett, 24. A passenger in his car was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Packett was booked at Douglas County Corrections for motor vehicle homicide-DUI.

Omaha police identified the woman killed in a fiery crash Sunday evening near Rose Blumkin and Dodge.

Investigators said just before 9 p.m. an Audi A4, driven by a suspected drunk driver slammed into Gina McKenna, 44, at a high rate of speed.

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The impact forced her Nissan Sentra into a wooden pole and caught fire. McKenna died on the scene.

The other driver has been identified as Michael Packett, 24.

A passenger in his car was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Packett was booked at Douglas County Corrections for motor vehicle homicide-DUI.