Nov 18, 2008 10:36 pm US/Central
Hit And Run Driver Killed Woman Intentionally
Driver Purposely Rammed Into 2 Women, Killing 1
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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Shaunte Sardin was struck and killed intentionally by a woman in an SUV.
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Two women were struck by an SUV, but police say this was no accident. In fact, investigators say they were the intended target. One woman was killed. It happened Monday afternoon on the city's south side in broad daylight.
CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports that Chicago detectives are still looking for the woman who drove an SUV into 35-year-old Shaunte Sardin and killed her. Based on witness and family accounts, it's very likely police now know who they are looking for. Sardin's family says she died as a result of a fight over a man.
"I was holding her hand when she passed away," said witness Andre Potts.
Andre Potts walks back to the place where he watched Shaunte Sardin take her last breath. She and a friend were thrown under a tree on the 4000 block of south Wabash in broad daylight Monday afternoon - after Potts says a woman driving an SUV intentionally ran them down. Potts saw the whole thing.
"She just, they were in the street and she just hit 'em head on," Potts said. "She gunned it. You could hear the engine rarin' up."
Potts was working at St. Elizabeth School across the street when it happened. The parish's pastor also came out to help.
"I knelt down, I prayed with her and tried to reassure her. I called to her, asked her if she was still with us. I just wanted her to know she wasn't there by herself," said Father Rick Andrus, St. Elizabeth Church.
Witnesses say Sardin had been yelling at and chasing a man down the street with a hammer when the woman in the SUV did a U-turn and hit her. Sardin's distraught family believes it was all the result of a love triangle.
"Just put everything to peace and just turn yourself in. Just please," said victim's sister Audreya Johnson.
As Audreya clutches her sister's picture, Sardin's cousin says she leaves two children behind as well as a community that loved her.
"Many people loved her, she was real known all around Chicago for having a heart. She really didn't deserve what happened to her," said victim's cousin Tyrone Galtney.
Sardin's friend who was also hit is still in the hospital Tuesday night with broken ribs and a broken leg.
Witnesses say the woman who hit Sardin was driving a gray GMC SUV with a broken passenger window on the driver's side. It could now also have some sort of dent in the front. If you have any information, please contact local police.
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