Woman Tragically Killed In Father’s Day Accident

By David Reynaud

 

Last Sunday was a tragic day in St. James Parish as an early morning vehicle crash near Gem Drugs in Gramercy resulted in the death of a woman and a young man charged with vehicular homicide. According to Lieutenant Jody Ordeneaux with the Gramercy Police Department, the lead law enforcement agency that worked the crash, that at roughly 5:17 a.m. on Sunday, a pickup truck driven by Montana Hymel (22 years of age), who was traveling west on LA 3125, collided head-on with a Toyota sedan, driven by Kathleen Burns (61 years of age), who was traveling east on LA 3125.