Alejandro Rojas | Homicide Watch Chicagohttp://homicides.suntimes.com/suspects/alejandro-rojas/Latest news about Alejandro Rojasen-usFri, 22 Apr 2016 11:49:34 -0500Driver charged with reckless homicide for running down Tadeusz Jakowski last summer in Portage Parkhttp://homicides.suntimes.com/2016/04/22/driver-charged-with-reckless-homicide-for-running-down-tadeusz-jakowski-last-summer-in-portage-park/<p>A North Side man has been charged in connection with a 2015 crash that killed <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/tadeusz-jakowski/">Tadeusz Jakowski</a> as he walked in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2016/04/Rojas.png"><img src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2016/04/Rojas-259x300.png" alt="Alejandro Rojas |Chicago Police" width="259" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-17257" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alejandro Rojas |Chicago Police</p><br /> <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/suspects/alejandro-rojas/">Alejandro Rojas</a>, 28, was charged Thursday with one felony count of reckless homicide, according to Chicago Police.</p> <p>About 4:45 p.m. July 23, 2015, Rojas was driving in the 5300 block of North Central when his vehicle struck a man walking in the crosswalk, authorities said.<br /> <span id="more-17255"></span></p> <p>Jakowski, 60, of the 5500 block of West Berteau, was taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died at 6:53 p.m. the same day, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.</p> <p>Prosecutors said another car had stopped for Jakowski, who was in the crosswalk, and Rojas drove around the other vehicle and struck the pedestrian at a high rate of speed.</p> <p>Rojas, who did stop and call 911 after realizing he had hit someone, was initially cited for driving an uninsured vehicle and not practicing due care with a pedestrian in the roadway. But the citations were dismissed and criminal charges filed on Thursday, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office.</p> <p>Rojas, of the 6400 block of North Glenwood, was ordered held on a $250,000 bond Friday.</p> <p><em>--Chicago Sun-Times Wire</em></p> Jeff MayesFri, 22 Apr 2016 11:49:34 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2016/04/22/driver-charged-with-reckless-homicide-for-running-down-tadeusz-jakowski-last-summer-in-portage-park/Tadeusz JakowskiAlejandro Rojas