Black offender fleeing police in a stolen motor vehicle crashes into another vehicle killing the woman.
A 911 operator driving home after completing her shift died after a man fleeing from police in a stolen luxury SUV drove into her vehicle in the Bucktown neighborhood, police said.
The accident occurred a little after 6 a.m. near Armitage Avenue and Hoyne Avenue, police said.
The victim was identified as Marciea Adkins, 42. She was pronounced dead at 6:54 a.m. at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
At about 6:15 a.m., Shakespeare District officers stopped the SUV at Blackhawk Street and Elston Avenue after it blew through a red light, police said in a statement.
After police stepped out of their vehicle, the suspect reversed the SUV and struck the car of a police supervisor who was on the scene and then fled in the vehicle, police said.
Police followed the man's SUV -- which later turned out to be reported stolen -- as the suspect blew through another stop sign while traveling northbound on Hoyne and struck a vehicle driven by Adkins which was traveling westbound an Armitage a little more than a mile away from the original stop, officials said.
After striking Adkins' car and a second, parked vehicle, the suspect fled the SUV on foot before being taken into custody, police said.
Adkins worked as a 911 dispatcher, according to officials from the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
According to an e-mail press release from Chicago EOMC Executive Gray Schenkel, the agency was "shocked and deeply saddened" by the death of the woman, who had been driving home after her work shift when the accident happened. The release said the woman had worked at OEMC since December 1996.
The release said said that "According to her coworkers and supervisors, she was the nicest, most positive person you would ever want to meet."
At 11 a.m., the woman's car was removed from the busy Bucktown corner where it had appeared to slam sideways -- on the driver's side -- into a fire hydrant.
A Range Rover that was also involved in the crash smashed into a building just north of Armitage on Hoyne.
The early morning crash woke up many in the neighborhood. They described the chilling sight of the victim, who was slumped in the driver's seat, and a desperate attempt by firefighters to free her.
Some also saw or heard a man try to flee the scene after jumping from the Range Rover and later said they saw the man taken from the block in handcuffs. The man is hospitalized but remains in custody, police said.
Witnesses also said several Chicago police vehicles were on the scene within seconds of the accident.
A woman was killed in a crash on the Northwest Side crash this morning. One man was taken into custody, according to witnesses. (Michael Tercha/Tribune)
911 dispatcher killed in Bucktown crash
A woman is dead following a multi-vehicle crash in the Bucktown neighborhood on the Northwest Side this morning, police said. The victim worked as a 911 dispatcher, officials said.
911 dispatcher killed in Bucktown crash
A woman is dead following a multi-vehicle crash in the Bucktown neighborhood on the Northwest Side this morning, police said. The victim worked as a 911 dispatcher, officials said.
A 911 operator who was driving home after completing her shift died following a multi-vehicle crash in the Bucktown neighborhood on the Northwest Side this morning, police said.
The accident occurred a little after 6 a.m. near Armitage Avenue and Hoyne Avenue, police said.
The victim was identified as Marciea Adkins, 42. She was pronounced dead at 6:54 a.m. at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
Adkins worked as a 911 dispatcher, according to officials from the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
According to an e-mail press release from Chicago EOMC Executive Gray Schenkel, the agency was "shocked and deeply saddened" by the death of the woman, who had been driving home after her work shift when the accident happened. The release said the woman had worked at OEMC since December 1996.
The release said said that "According to her coworkers and supervisors, she was the nicest, most positive person you would ever want to meet."
At 11 a.m., the woman's car was removed from the busy Bucktown corner where it had appeared to slam sideways -- on the driver's side -- into a fire hydrant.
A Range Rover that was also involved in the crash smashed into a building just north of Armitage on Hoyne.
The early morning crash woke up many in the neighborhood. They described the chilling sight of the victim, who was slumped in the driver's seat, and a desperate attempt by firefighters to free her.
Some also saw or heard a man try to flee the scene after jumping from the Range Rover and later said they saw the man taken from the block in handcuffs. The man is hospitalized but remains in custody, police said.
Witnesses also said several Chicago police vehicles were on the scene within seconds of the accident -- suggesting to them that police had been following the Range Rover.
Chicago Police News Affairs officials could not provide details on what led to the fatal crash.
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Detective Shavedlongcock:
Yes, Dukie kills another good hard working person in Chicago...As he rides around in his expensive Range Rover collecting a welfare check!~
