Motorcyclist killed in Portage Park hit-and-run

Tanner Kapan, 25, was going east on Irving Park Road near Lockwood Avenue Saturday when the driver of a 2003 BMW sedan struck him and drove away.

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A motorcyclist was killed April 24, 2022 in a hit-and-run on the Northwest Side.

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A motorcyclist was killed in a hit-and-run crash Saturday night in Portage Park on the Northwest Side.

Tanner Kapan, 25, was going east on Irving Park Road near Lockwood Avenue at 8 p.m. when the driver of a 2003 BMW sedan struck him and drove away, Chicago police said.

Kapan was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center and pronounced dead, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

An autopsy confirmed he died of injuries from the crash. His death was ruled accidental.

No one was in custody.

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