{"id":375247,"date":"2010-03-01T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/park-forest-man-killed-in-hit-and-run"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:22:29","slug":"park-forest-man-killed-in-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375247","title":{"rendered":"Park Forest man killed in hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h3><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Park Forest man is dead and another man is in critical condition after being struck by a pickup truck early Sunday in Lynwood. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the pickup is in custody but no charges have been filed. <\/p>\n<p>Police responded about 2:15 a.m. <span id=\"more-21625\"><\/span>to an incident at 2030 Glenwood Dyer Road &#8212; the Lynwood Sports Center &#8212; and found two people struck by a pickup truck, Lynwood police said. <\/p>\n<p>Devon Walker, 22, of Park Forest, was dead on the scene, the Cook County medical examiner&#8217;s office said. The second man was taken to an unidentified hospital in critical but stable condition, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police a white Ford pickup truck fled west on Glenwood Dyer Road after striking the pedestrians. With help from a witness, police stopped the truck by Interstates 94\/294 and Illinois 394 near Lansing, about five miles south of the crash. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was taken was taken into custody and later to a local hospital, police said. Charges have not been announced. <\/p>\n<p>The South Suburban Major Accident Reconstruction Team are investigating with help from the Lynwood police and fire departments, Sauk Village, Thornton and Steger police. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.southtownstar.com\/news\/2076399,lynwood-hit-run-0301.article\" title=\"Park Forest man killed in hit-and-run\" rel='nofollow'>SouthTown Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vX4mt5-Lk5OPepHMq29S3hbaVTI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vX4mt5-Lk5OPepHMq29S3hbaVTI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vX4mt5-Lk5OPepHMq29S3hbaVTI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vX4mt5-Lk5OPepHMq29S3hbaVTI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=8TL6Cdp4F1U:U1dim0L97PU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=8TL6Cdp4F1U:U1dim0L97PU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=8TL6Cdp4F1U:U1dim0L97PU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=8TL6Cdp4F1U:U1dim0L97PU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/8TL6Cdp4F1U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Park Forest man is dead and another man is in critical condition after being struck by a pickup truck early Sunday in Lynwood. The driver of the pickup is in custody but no charges have been filed. Police responded about 2:15 a.m. to an incident at 2030 Glenwood Dyer Road &#8212; the Lynwood Sports [&hellip;]<\/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-375247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375247","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=375247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}