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A Kansas family is finally hoping for closure after the jailing of a drunk driver who took the life of a beloved grandmother at twice the speed limit and three times the drink driving limit.
Karla O'Malley, 62, never regained consciousness after Alexander Kohrs, 24, smashed into the back of her car at 73mph as she returned home from visiting her baby granddaughters in October 2022.
Her daughter was in court to read a victim impact statement as Kohrs was sentenced to eight years on Tuesday for the killing which sent O'Malley's car into a powerline, and its engine onto the sidewalk.
'It's important to honor my mom's story, and to say what needs to be said,' daughter Megan Hillen wrote on Facebook.
'My hope is it will help our family not move on, but move forward. I'm hoping it will make this pit that's been living in my chest for the last 1.5 years finally go away.'
egan Hillen, left, with her mother Karla O'Malley and one of Karla's granddaughters
'It's important to honor my mom's story, and to say what needs to be said,' daughter Megan wrote on Facebook before the killer's sentencing
Alexander Kohrs, 24, from Kansas City hit O'Malley's car with such force while three times over the drink-drive limit that its engine was thrown clear and landed on the sidewalk
Hillen said her baby daughters were the 'two little lights of her life', before the fatal crash in Kansas City's Overland Park.
'That was what she lived for. She just loved hanging out with her grandbabies,' she told the Kansas City Star.
The family had been preparing for Halloween and O'Malley had helped dress the girls for a local trunk-or-treat event.
After eating dinner with them that Saturday evening she headed back to husband Anthony and was just minutes from home when Kohrs plowed into the back of her car at 73mph in a 35mph zone.
Later that evening Hillen received a text message from her brother: 'Call me immediately.'
'In an instant she went from being a
