2 hospitalized following crash with ambulance in Washington Park
By STMW NEWS
A Chevy was driving north about 4:30 p.m. in the 5500 block of South Martin Luther King Drive when it struck a private ambulance heading east on 55th Street, Chicago police said.
ST. JOHN â A mother is grateful for the efforts of bystanders who rescued her son from a burning car Sunday following a crash.
Mona Garcia was outside with her dogs Sunday evening when her son, Jorge Tony Mendez left their Cedar Lake home to grab a cup of coffee or something to eat.
Ten minutes later, she received a call that her second-oldest son had been in an accident.
Garcia s stomach dropped.
It has been less than a year since she had to bury her oldest son, Aaron, who died in May after a two-and-a-half year battle with cancer. To hear again that one of my kids was possibly in a fatal accident â my stomach just dropped. I was finally able to breathe Monday night when they told me he (Tony) was out of surgery, Garcia said. It s hard enough to bury one of your children, to think that I could have lost a second was just unbearable.
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A Roseland man has been charged with the murder of a man who was shot and killed during a shootout following a botched armed robbery at a Far South Side gas station.
When Rodney Hawkins, 20, and two others allegedly tried to steal cash, shoes and a car from Kieer Pargo and another man at a Pullman Citgo Saturday, Pargo shot Hawkins.
But then one of Hawkins’ cohorts returned fire and killed Pargo, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.
The gunman and Hawkins’ other cohort have not yet been charged.
Hawkins’ face could be “clearly seen” on high-definition surveillance footage around 11:30 p.m. purchasing a bag of Swedish Fish with a cohort at the gas station’s store, at 701 E. 103rd St., Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said.
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Community activist Andrew Holmes was hurt in a traffic crash Wednesday after a CTA bus ran a red light in Bronzeville, striking the vehicle he was using to deliver Easter basket supplies.
“I didn’t even see the bus, as fast as it was flying,” Holmes told the Chicago Sun-Times.
The northbound bus went through a red light about 2:45 p.m. at King Drive at 51st Street and hit a westbound truck, Chicago police said. Holmes, the 61-year-old man driving the truck, called for a ride to a hospital to be treated for a sore left shoulder.