No prison time for man who was driving 90 mph when he fatally struck Bria Hunter in 2015 in Chatham

Jeff Mayes — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:24:47 -0600

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

George Evans | Cook County Sheriff's Dept.

A man who fatally struck 18-year-old Bria Hunter with a rented car last year in the South Side Chatham neighborhood was sentenced Friday to probation and community service.

George R. Evans, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of reckless homicide with a motor vehicle before Judge Evelyn Clay, according to Cook County court records.

Evans was driving a rented Volkswagen on April 26, 2015, with his cousin and his cousin’s young children in the vehicle when he sped through a stoplight at 87th and Lafayette, and struck a woman while driving nearly 90 mph, prosecutors said at the time.

The impact catapulted the Hunter about 100 feet and shattered the window of the Volkswagen, prosecutors said.

Hunter was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. She lived in the 8200 block of South Kimbark.

Bria Hunter | Facebook

The teen was reported missing by her mother the day after the accident, but was not identified as the victim until ab out six weeks later, when a riend of the family saw her description on the Cook County medical examiner’s office website,

After the crash, Evans was captured on cellphone video standing over Hunter’s body, laughing as he talked about being in another crash the previous week, prosecutors said.

Police found him sitting in the rental care and the scene, and he told them he was driving the rental vehicle because he had totaled his own car a week earlier, police said.

Judge Clay sentenced Evans to community service and 36 months of probation Friday, according to court records.

Bria Hunter | Homicide Watch Chicago

No prison time for man who was driving 90 mph when he fatally struck Bria Hunter in 2015 in Chatham