Kennedi Demuth, 25, of Fullerton, was found shot inside a Columbus, Nebraska, home on the evening of September 16, 2025, after officers were dispatched around 8:35 p.m. to a residence near the 2200 block of 7th Street. Responding officers discovered her with a gunshot wound to the head; she was alive when first responders arrived but was transported for emergency treatment and died the next day, September 17, 2025, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha with family present.

Local obituaries gave her full name as Kennedi Marie DeMuth and listed funeral arrangements in her hometown. In the days after the shooting, investigators arrested 25-year-old Jack Reeg of Columbus; he was booked on suspicion of second-degree murder, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, and making terroristic threats, and a regional outlet reported Reeg admitted to causing the injury. Police described the killing as a tragic incident and said the investigation into motive continued.

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