$500K bond for teen driver who fatally struck Eugene Ratclif on his 32nd birthday

Jeff Mayes — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:00:52 -0500

Bond was set at $500,000 Friday for a 17-year-old boy charged with striking three pedestrians, killing Eugene Ratclif, with a car while driving drunk on the South Side on Tuesday night.

Judge James Brown set the bond for Dorian Williams, who faces multiple felonies, according to the Cook County State's Attorney's office. Charges include reckless homicide with a motor vehicle, aggravated fleeing and causing bodily injury, aggravated DUI causing death, two counts of aggravated DUI causing bodily harm and four counts of leaving the scene of an accident with injury or death, and possession of cannabis, according to police.

The teen was driving south on Blackstone Avenue near East 83rd Street about 9 p.m. Sept. 24 when he struck three people who were crossing the street, police said.

Ratclif, of the 8200 block of South Dante Avenue, had turned 32 years old that day, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. He was taken to Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, where he died at 9:45 p.m.

One of the injured pedestrians, a 22-year-old man, was taken to Jackson Park Hospital in good condition. The other, a 30-year-old woman, was taken to South Shore Hospital in "stable" condition, police said.

After hitting the three people, the teen's vehicle struck another car that was driving on 83rd Street, police said. Neither driver needed medical attention.

Williams was also cited for driving 11-14 mph above the speed limit, operating a vehicle without insurance, failure to reduce speed and three counts of failure to stop at a stop sign, according to police.

—Chicago Sun-Times WIre

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$500K bond for teen driver who fatally struck Eugene Ratclif on his 32nd birthday