CHICAGO (WLS) — Charges were filed in reference to the Aug. 3 fatal hit and run of a 16-year-old Aurora lady in Chicago’s Hermosa community.Josue Mendoza Barrera, 26, of Chicago used to be charged with reckless homicide.
He used to be arrested Wednesday in Lemont after he used to be recognized because the driver of the minivan who chased and struck a automobile killing Ashley Sanchez in the 4500 Block of W. Armitage. Barrera is accused of then leaving the scene.
The teens oldsters, Araceli and Alex Sanchez, have been pleading for the general public’s help in discovering the folk responsible for her death.
The 3 of them had left the White Sox recreation and had dropped off a chum in town when they mentioned two folks in a tan minivan pulled along and displayed a gun.
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“They chased us down Cicero avenue, and it seemed like an eternity,” Alex instructed Eyewitness news in August.
The Sanchezes mentioned the offenders hit the back of their Dodge Charger, sending it spinning and crashing right into a parked semi.
Ashley was killed and Araceli suffered serious body and head injuries.
“That my daughter handed, I didn’t find out till two weeks later. They may just no longer inform me because of the bleeding in my brain,” stated Araceli.
Ashley was once about to start out her junior yr at Waubonsie Valley High School.
She was a skilled bowler and was looking for a faculty scholarship and sought after to review criminal justice to change into a prosecutor.
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