Man charged with DUI after fatal West Town crash

SHARE Man charged with DUI after fatal West Town crash
screen_shot_2017_01_30_at_2_32_28_am_e1485812965921.png

Yonatan D. Monrroy-Madrid | Chicago Police

A man has been charged with DUI after causing a crash Saturday afternoon that left one man dead and two others injured in West Town, police said.

Yonatan D. Monrroy-Madrid, 19, faces one felony count of aggravated DUI causing an accident resulting in a death, according to a statement from Chicago Police. He was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of DUI and cited for operating a motor vehicle without insurance, failing to stop at a stop sign and failing to reduce speed.

Monrroy-Madrid was driving west on Hubbard Street in a Jeep Grand Cherokee about 1:35 p.m. when he blew a stop sign and struck a Toyota Camry traveling north in the 400 block of North Ashland, according to Chicago Police. Impact from the crash sent both vehicles onto Hubbard.

The 58-year-old man driving the Camry was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:49 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He has not yet been identified.

Monrroy-Madrid, along with a 25-year-old man and 19-year-old man who were passengers in the Jeep, were taken to Stroger Hospital with injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening, police said.

Monrroy-Madrid, of the 2200 block of North Knox, was scheduled to appear in bond court Monday.

One person was killed and three others were seriously injured in a crash Saturday afternoon in West Town, authorities said. | NVP Video

One person was killed and three others were seriously injured in a crash Saturday afternoon in West Town, authorities said. | NVP Video

The Latest
The man was shot in the left eye area in the 5700 block of South Christiana Avenue on the city’s Southwest Side.
Most women who seek abortions are women of color, especially Black women. Restricting access to mifepristone, as a case now before the Supreme Court seeks to do, would worsen racial health disparities.
The Bears have spent months studying the draft. They’ll spend the next one plotting what could happen.
Woman is getting anxious about how often she has to host her husband’s hunting buddy and his wife, who don’t contribute at all to mealtimes.
He launched a campaign against a proposed neo-Nazis march at a time the suburb was home to many Holocaust survivors. His rabbi at Skokie Central Congregation urged Jews to ignore the Nazis. “I jumped up and said, ‘No, Rabbi. We will not stay home and close the windows.’ ”