Family offers $5,000 for information about hit-and-run in south Chicago suburbs
The victim, identified as Tamia Costello, suffered extensive injuries in the hit-and-run in Hazel Crest.
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The victim, identified as Tamia Costello, suffered extensive injuries in the hit-and-run in Hazel Crest.
Police said the vehicle was traveling southbound on Cicero Avenue at the time of the crash and then continued to flee southbound from the scene afterward.
A white Nissan sedan struck the pedestrian, who died at the scene.
Investigators say just before midnight, deputies arrived at the scene on Dilleys Road just south of Wadsworth Road for a report of a person down.
The surviving cousin had just recently been released from the hospital with serious injuries.
The family is also begging the community to help find the person who ran from the scene.
Brittany and Yolanda Payne were trying to get home from a night out when their lives were cut short this past July. Five weeks later, a family can’t understand how there are no new developments in the case—and want Chicago Police to make the case a priority, as Jermont Terry reports.
A hit-and-run crash sent a sport-utility vehicle plowing into a parked van and slamming into the side of an apartment building in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood.
The cyclist died on Thursday, Sept. 5.
A bicyclist has died after being struck in the hit-and-run last month in Garfield Park.
Police said on Aug 10, a pedestrian was struck while crossing the street around 4:11 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the 1300 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
Police say on Aug. 10 a pedestrian was hit while crossing the street in the 1300 block of DuSable South Lakeshore Drive. The first car stopped, but the car sought was the second one that hit and killed the victim and did not stop.
Chicago police say the boy was crossing the street on his bike between two block parties when a black sedan hit him. The driver did not stop to render aid.
Chicago police say around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the boy was crossing the street on his bike between two block parties when a black sedan hit him.
The driver of a black pickup was heading eastbound and did not stop to render aid.
The driver of a black pickup was heading eastbound and did not stop to render aid.
The car was found abandoned minutes later.
A 45-year-old man was riding a scooter across Ruble Street when a black Dodge Charger struck him in the 600 block of West Taylor.
Police say the woman was jogging on the shoulder of the road and in the bike lane of South Halsted Street.
The black Toyota Rav 4 that struck her did not stop and fled south on Halsted.
Chicago police said around 9 p.m., a male on a motorized bike was heading westbound in the 4900 block of West Chicago Avenue when he was struck by the Jeep.
Police said a red Jeep fled the scene after striking the victim who suffered head trauma.
No one was in custody late Monday.
Brittany Payne, 32, of Chicago, and Yolanda Payne, 47, of Bellwood, were killed, and another of their cousins remained in critical condition Monday night.
Brittany Payne, 32, of Chicago, and Yolanda Payne, 47, of Bellwood, were killed in the hit-and-run early Sunday morning, and another of their cousins remained in critical condition Monday night.
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