1 charged after CTA bus stop crash in Chatham kills 1, injures 3

CHICAGO (WLS) — A person has been charged in a deadly crash right into a CTA bus cease in Chatham that killed one particular person and injured three others Sunday, Chicago police mentioned.

Police mentioned the crash occurred on Sunday at about 11:18 a.m. close to the 79th Avenue and King Drive intersection in Chatham.

A 57-year-old man was pronounced useless on the scene, police mentioned. Two ladies, 64 and 23 years outdated, and a male particular person of unknown age had been transported to the College of Chicago Medical Middle in unknown circumstances.

The person was well-known within the Chatham group.

On Monday, police mentioned Troy Shumpert, 32, of Chicago, was charged with one felony rely of driving revoked/2+/particular person damage/demise together with misdemeanor counta of driving on a revoked license and uninsured motorcar in addition to a number of site visitors citations.

The person killed within the crash was well-known within the Chatham group. Neighbors mentioned he at all times frolicked day by day on the very bus cease the place he was killed.

“All people liked him across the neighborhood,” mentioned Shawn Caples, a witness and buddy of the sufferer. “He was a cool man. He did not mess with no one. He stayed to himself. He did what he needed to do, go to work, perhaps dangle up below right here, discuss to a couple folks.”

Remnants of a sudden lethal crash stay simply steps away from Caples’ condominium the place he noticed his shut buddy run over and killed at a spot they frolicked at for years.

SEE ALSO | Chicago crash: Pedestrian killed in Gage Park ID’d, driver in custody, authorities say

“I simply seemed out the window and seen him come into the pavement,” Caples recalled. “God should’ve instructed me, ‘Keep in the home,’ as a result of it might’ve been me.”

Unique surveillance video from a close-by BP fuel station exhibits the second when police say a driver hit a number of folks sitting at a bus cease. ABC7 has frozen the video earlier than the lethal impression.

“The folks had been already yelling, ‘Assist! Assist,’” Caples mentioned.

Then, Caples noticed the motive force.

“He received on his knees and was praying for the folks, and he did not look drunk. It seemed like one thing else triggered that accident,” Caples mentioned.

Shumpert is scheduled to look in bond court docket Monday.