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Airmen Against Drunk Driving to get $7,000 donation at WPAFB

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Staff Report 1:39 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2011

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — A woman whose son, a former Air Force firefighter, died in the crash of a car driven by an allegedly drunk motorist is donating $7,000 to the Airmen Against Drunk Driving program.

Connie Gilhooly, mother of the late Ryan Gilhooly, and two friends raised the money after the son’s death March 24 after a car crash near Fort Myers, Fla.

Ryan Gilhooly, 29, was originally from Clayton, in Montgomery County, and graduated in 1999 from Northmont High School. Florida authorities said he had been riding with friends after a night of drinking and was killed when his friend lost control of her car and crashed into a tree.

Connie Gilhooly and her friends, Denise Reims and Jackie Munn, are presenting a check Tuesday evening for the $7,000 they helped raise. They are giving the money to the 88th Air Base Wing, the host unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Base officials said the money is for the Wright-Patterson chapter of Airmen Against Drunk Driving. The organization’s goal is to reduce drunken driving on or near Air Force bases by providing rides to active and retired military personnel and civilian employees who are unable to drive themselves, without using chain of command and without fear of repercussion.

Authorities in Lee County, Fla., charged the driver in the March car crash, Florida resident Danielle N. Bowman, 26, with felony drunken driving that caused death or bodily injury to another, along with a misdemeanor offense of having a blood-alcohol level in excess of the legal limit. Bowman is free on bond awaiting trial in 2012, according to Lee County court records.

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