Dec 8, 2008 9:34 am US/Central
Teen Charged In Hit-And-Run, Killed 15-Year-Old
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
An allegedly drunk, teenage driver who struck and killed a 15-year-old girl in north suburban Prospect Heights Saturday night initially fled the scene—only to call police and report his car vandalized an hour later.
About 11 p.m. Saturday, the teen girl was leaving a park in the 200 block of North Elmhurst Road and attempting to cross the street when she was struck by a car, Prospect Heights police Chief Bruce Morris said.
The vehicle then fled the scene, leaving the critically injured girl and multiple witnesses behind.
The girl, identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office as Monika Skrzypkowski, of 718 N. Fernandez Ave. in Arlington Heights, was taken to Northwestern Community Healthcare in Arlington Heights where she was pronounced dead at 12:07 a.m. Sunday.
Multiple witnesses described the vehicle that struck Skrzypkowski to police, Morris said, and just an hour after the incident police got a call from a young man reporting that his car had been vandalized.
Officers arrived to check out the vandalized car and realized it matched the description of the vehicle involved in the fatal hit-and-run an hour prior, Morris said. There was visible damage to the front end of the vehicle.
Kevin Schuh, 17, of Mount Prospect, was arrested and charged with aggravated DUI with great bodily harm and reckless homicide, Morris said.
No one else was injured in the incident.
Schuh will appear at a bond hearing Monday at 1 p.m. in the Rolling Meadows Courthouse, 2121 Euclid Ave., Rolling Meadows.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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