A 62-year-old woman fatally struck by a motorcycle in Methuen on Sunday night has been identified as Pamela O’Neil, the Essex County District Attorney’s office confirmed to MassLive Tuesday morning.
O’Neil was found lying face down on the side of the road in the area of 471 Lowell St. around 8:35 p.m. Sunday, police said previously. The first responding officer tried to provide aid until paramedics arrived, but she was declared dead after being taken to Lawrence General Hospital. Video footage of the crash showed that a motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed had struck the victim, police said.
Pamela O’Neil’s daughter, Kelsie O’Neil, told WCVB-TV her mom “had the biggest heart.”
“Greatest mom, lit up every room she walked into,” Kelsie O’Neil said, according to the station. “She’s the best woman on the planet.”
Police on Monday arrested the rider of the motorcycle that hit Pamela O’Neil, after the person had fled the scene.
“You took everything away from me. I didn’t deserve that. My family didn’t deserve that and I loved her so much,” Kelsie O’Neil said.
Kelsie O’Neil told NBC10 Boston her mom was a paratrooper and one of the first women in Essex County to receive her wings from the 82nd Airborne.
“I think they’re a coward,” Kelsie O’Neil told the station. “They need to get the full hammer of the law and they need prison time.”
