Danville Native Killed In Washington DC: Reports

Shawn O’Donnell, 40, was struck and killed by a truck whereas driving her bike in northwestern Washington, D.C., town’s Metropolitan Police confirmed to The Washington Publish. Police mentioned in a press release Thursday that O’Donnell was touring alongside the truck, however was crushed when it tried to make a proper flip and didn’t see her. She was taken to the hospital with important accidents, and pronounced useless that morning.

Police mentioned the incident stays beneath investigation, and it’s unknown if the motive force, who stopped and cooperated with the investigation, will face prices.

“Thirty minutes after the truck hit her, and he or she was useless — a woman who I carried beneath my coronary heart for 9 months, and I carried in my coronary heart for 40 years, and now that a part of my coronary heart won’t ever be mounted,” mom Mary O’Donnell instructed DanvilleSanRamon.com. “It is simply gone.”

O’Donnell mentioned her daughter was “a girl of service, all the time pondering of others.” Born and raised in Danville, she graduated from U.C. Berkeley, the place she rowed crew, in accordance with profiles in The Publish and Danville/San Ramon. She earned a Masters of Public Coverage from the College of Minnesota, in accordance with the paper. She labored at Google for 2 years, then moved to Washington, the place she labored on the Division of Homeland Safety, the place she helped refugees searching for asylum; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers, and at last as a international service officer on the State Division.

For her fortieth birthday, she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro.

“The world misplaced out on Shawn as a result of she was a brilliant mild who had a lot extra to present and a lot extra to stay,” her mom instructed The Publish.