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Mary Byers, who for 26 years served the community as a 911 call taker, dispatcher and supervisor, was killed at Admiral Boulevard and Utica Avenue, police said.

Details about the crash were not immediately available, but police said the man alleged to have hit her, 27-year-old Cody Carrell, has turned himself in.

Byers began her career as a 911 dispatcher on Aug. 30, 1995, and was promoted to 911 supervisor in November 2017, police wrote in a social media post. She is remembered for her work ethic and accessibility to others on all shifts over the years, but her latest assignment was overnight on “graveyard” shift, the post states…