A 68-year-old woman was struck and killed by a motorist Thursday in Archer Heights on the Southwest Side.
Jiekun Xu was in a crosswalk when the driver of a white pickup truck ran a red light and hit her just before 5 p.m. in the 4300 block of South Pulaski Road, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Xu was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
The driver of the pickup truck fled the scene. Police said the truck could be a Ford F150 or a Ram 1500.
CPD’s Major Accidents Unit was investigating.
