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CPD knows owner of car whose driver killed Ulysses Coleman, 38, Sunday in Austin, but hasn’t filed charges
Hopefully the police department will use all legal methods available to identify and charge the motorist who killed Coleman.
August 21, 2023
Hit-and-run driver killed pedestrian Soyfa Athamanah, 69, as she crossed Broadway in Uptown.
Sun-Times photographer Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere witnessed the killing, and said he thinks it was intentional.
July 26, 2023
CPD: After “verbal turned physical altercation,” man was fatally dragged by driver in West Garfield Park
The conflict took place at 626 S. Pulaski Rd., and the victim was dragged two blocks south, until he struck another driver's open door and fell, and the first motorist fled the scene.
July 17, 2023
Józef Strus, 67, fatally struck on bicycle by turning driver at 57th/Natchez, is 3rd bike rider killed in Chicago this year.
Strus, who lived about a half mile from the crash site, was the second bicyclist killed in Chicago this month.
June 26, 2023
Bike rider Ron Mendoza, 43, died from injuries suffered in collision with driver in Logan Square
Tragically, fitness instructor Ron Mendoza, 43, died two days after being hospitalized for injuries from a collision on his bike with a car driver.
June 12, 2023
Hit-and-run driver killed Angela R. Mcknight, 49, crossing street in Lawndale on Memorial Day
Hit-and-run driver killed Angela R. Mcknight, 49, crossing street in Lawndale on Memorial Day
May 30, 2023
CPD has not arrested driver who killed cyclist Rick Lomas on May 7
A fatal hit-and-run bike crash that took place on Sunday, May 7, in Humboldt Park is still unsolved by the Chicago Police Department.
May 23, 2023
Man, 59, fatally struck by driver at 89th/Cottage is third Chatham ped fatality this year
The man was the 13th person walking to be struck and killed on Chicago streets this year.
April 17, 2023
Tracy Burton, 55, was third Chicagoan fatally struck by turning driver in 3 months
On Saturday night, for the third time in three months in Chicago, a turning driving failed to yield to a person walking, fatally striking them.
April 10, 2023
Driver who ran stop sign fatally struck James R. Thompson, 26, in West Loop, fled
Drivers blowing stop signs is commonplace in Chicago, and tragically early Saturday morning in the West Loop a motorist's decision to do so robbed James Richard Thompson, 26, of his life.
March 30, 2023
