Stacy Vaughn,47, killed and one injured when struck by fleeing driver Richard Johnson, 29, on South LaSalle Street in Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois
2 killed after SUV fleeing police hits another vehicle in Englewood
Police pursued the white SUV and arrested the woman driving, but during the arrest, a man inside the SUV jumped behind the wheel and tried to drive away. As he tried to flee, he crashed into a Maroon Ford Focus.
Woman killed after SUV fleeing police hits another vehicle in Englewood
Chicago police had initially erroneously reported that both Ford Focus occupants had died.
Woman killed in Englewood crash with car speeding away from police
The driver of the Ford, 47-year-old Stacy Vaughn, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:29 a.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. She lived in the South Side Park Manor neighborhood.
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