{"id":123751,"date":"2025-08-06T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/123751\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:02:11","slug":"chicago-man-charged-with-murder-in-deadly-south-side-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/123751\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man charged with murder in deadly South Side car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/markell-reeves.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Markell Reeves | Chicago police <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A Chicago man was charged in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/south-side-crash-woodlawn-fatal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a crash that left a woman dead<\/a> and two others injured last year in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/woodlawn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woodlawn<\/a> neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Markell Reeves, 40, was arrested Monday in Lansing, Illinois. He was charged with the following:<\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">First-degree murder<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Two counts of aggravated battery\/use of a deadly weapon<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Two counts of attempted first-degree murder<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Murder &#8211; strong probability of death\/injury<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Murder &#8211; other forcible felony<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Aggravated battery causing great bodily harm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The charges stem from a crash that occurred around 10:25 p.m. on May 25, 2024, near the 6400 block of S. Cottage Grove Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police said Reeves was driving an SUV when it collided with another vehicle, a Volkswagen sedan. Both drivers had reportedly been en route to the 3rd District police station to file a report before crashing into a third vehicle, a Chevy SUV.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The 45-year-old woman driving the Chevy was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center. A 43-year-old passenger in that vehicle was critically injured and hospitalized. The driver of the Volkswagen was listed in fair condition, while Reeves was hospitalized in serious condition at the time.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Reeves has a detention hearing scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Chicago Police Department and previous FOX 32 reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/woodlawn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woodlawn<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Markell Reeves | Chicago police CHICAGO &#8211; A Chicago man was charged in connection with a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,68,21267],"class_list":{"0":"post-123751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-woodlawn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114982193995197170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}