By SIMONE ALICEA and JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 33-year-old man has been charged with reckless homicide for a hit-and-run crash that left 57-year-old Carmen Maria Vanegas dead and her husband seriously injured Sunday morning in Avondale.
A woman was killed in a four-car crash that also left her husband in critical condition Sunday morning in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Jason Missak was charged with reckless homicide and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death, all felonies, according to Chicago Police.
Missak was driving a white Jaguar with Illinois plates “DO R DI” westbound in the 3200 block of Belmont Avenue about 7 a.m. Sunday when he ran a red light at the intersection of Kedzie Avenue, police said.
The Jaguar hit the passenger side of a Chevrolet that was northbound on Kedzie, sending it spinning into two other cars in oncoming traffic, police said.
The driver of the Jaguar, later identified as Missak, took after the crash and left his car, but someone took a photo of him as he was running away, according to a police source.
Vanegas, the passenger in the Chevrolet, was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she died at 7:39 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She lived in the 3900 block of West 58th Place.
Jason Missak | Chicago Police
Her 64-year-old husband, who was driving, was taken to the same hospital in serious condition.
Three people in the other two cars declined medical attention, fire officials said.
Missak, of the 5700 block of West Pensacola Avenue, was arrested near his home Sunday night, police said. He is scheduled to appear in bond court Tuesday.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire