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4 suburban teens ID'd after pickup truck plunges off Cicero Ave. bridge on SW Side
ABC7 Chicago • • nation
Key Points:
- Four teens—Yuaren Garcia-Penia (18), Yaritza Martinez-Villeda (17), Christopher Lopez-Montan (19), and Vanessa Morales (14)—were killed after a pickup truck plunged off a bridge on Chicago's Southwest Side early Sunday morning.
- The crash occurred around 2:16 a.m. in the 6900-block of South Cicero Avenue following police attempts to stop the vehicle.
- Chicago police initially responded to a report of someone pointing a gun from a moving vehicle and tried to stop the pickup, but the driver fled, leading to a brief pursuit that was called off.
- Illinois State Police later spotted the vehicle and attempted to stop it again, but the driver fled once more, ultimately crashing the truck off the bridge into a train boxcar.
