$350K bond for man charged with reckless homicide in Lake Shore Drive rollover crash

SHARE $350K bond for man charged with reckless homicide in Lake Shore Drive rollover crash
peacock090615_copy.jpg

Christopher Peacock | Cook County sheriff’s office

Bond was set at $350,000 Sunday for a northwest Indiana man charged after a rollover crash Thursday night on Lake Shore Drive in Edgewater left a woman dead.

Christopher Peacock, 33, faces a count of reckless homicide for the single-vehicle crash that happened about 7:20 p.m. in the 5700 block of North Lake Shore Drive, according to Chicago Police.

Peacock was at the wheel of the vehicle, which was speeding when it hit a pole and rolled over, police said.

His passenger, 33-year-old Jillian Tsirtsis, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She was from Crown Point, Indiana.

The driver was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in serious-to-critical condition, fire officials said.

Police said at the time of the crash that alcohol may have played a role.

Peacock is from Griffith, Indiana, authorities said.

A judge on Sunday ordered him held on a $350,000 bond, according to Cook County court records. He is due back in court Tuesday.


The Latest
Hundreds gathered for a memorial service for Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, a mysterious QR code mural enticed Taylor Swift fans on the Near North Side, and a weekend mass shooting in Back of the Yards left 9-year-old Ariana Molina dead and 10 other people wounded, including her mother and other children.
The artist at Goodkind Tattoo in Lake View incorporates hidden messages and inside jokes to help memorialize people’s furry friends.
Chicago artist Jason Messinger created the murals in 2018 during a Blue Line station renovation and says his aim was for “people to look at this for 30 seconds and transport them on a mini-vacation of the mind. Each mural is an abstract idea of a vacation destination.”
MV Realty targeted people who had equity in their homes but needed cash — locking them into decadeslong contracts carrying hidden fees, the Illinois attorney general says in a new lawsuit.
The bodies of Richard Crane, 62, and an unidentified woman were found shot at the D-Lux Budget Inn in southwest suburban Lemont.