Jada Washington, 6, of the 1400 block of West 73rd Street, was pronounced dead at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Chicago Comer Childrens Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiners office.<\/p>\n
An autopsy Wednesday found the girl died of cervical injuries from a minivan striking her and her death was ruled an accident, the medical examiner’s office said.<\/p>\n
Jadas 21-year-old aunt was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said. Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said the woman suffered multiple fractures.<\/p>\n
Langford said the van appeared to strike the two as they crossed the street. When emergency crews arrived, the driver and van were still on the scene in the middle of the block.<\/p>\n
Lumpkin will appear for a bond hearing Friday.<\/p>\n
The police Major Accident Investigation Unit are investigating.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Charges were upgraded Thursday afternoon for an Englewood man who drove a van that fatally struck a 6-year-old girl and critically wounded her aunt Tuesday night on the South Side. Eddie Lumpkin, 48, was driving a vehicle that struck a girl and her aunt in the 7300 block of South Ashland Avenue about 6:35 p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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