LAWRENCE – Katrina Nguyen, the woman charged with killing two men in a hit-and-run crash on Route 495 in Methuen, had been drinking and driving with a suspended license, a prosecutor said Monday.
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Nguyen, 26, was in tears as she pleaded not guilty to two counts of motor vehicle homicide, leaving the scene resulting in death, leaving the scene with personal injury, leaving the scene with property damage and driving after a suspension at her arraignment in Essex County Superior Court in Lawrence.
Assistant District Attorney Jessica Fleet said Nguyen had been drinking at two parties and a lounge late Friday night into Saturday morning before she crashed her SUV into a pickup truck on 495 north just after 6 a.m. Saturday.
A witness told police Nguyen sped past her at nearly 100 miles an hour, made a sharp left turn into the pickup truck, then drove away. The truck rolled over into the median and slammed into a tree. There were four men inside.
Two passengers, 41-year-old Kenny Milanez and 37-year-old Celso Diaz, both of Worcester, died. Two others in the truck were hurt. All four were on their way to work in New Hampshire at the time of the crash…