{"id":137372,"date":"2025-08-11T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137372\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:27:09","slug":"chicago-police-release-image-of-vehicle-sought-in-gage-park-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-22-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137372\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Police Release Image Of Vehicle Sought In Gage Park Hit-And-Run Crash That Killed 22-Year-Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Chicago police are looking for the driver of a vehicle wanted in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian early Sunday morning in Gage Park.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3:25 a.m., police said a man was walking in the crosswalk in the 5400 block of South Kedzie Avenue, when police said he was struck by a 2014-2024 Silver Toyota 4Runner Limited. After striking the pedestrian, the vehicle fled northbound on Kedzie Avenue. It was last seen near Archer and Sacramento avenues, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the pedestrian suffered significant injuries in the crash and was later pronounced dead at an area hospital. <\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was identified by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookcountyil.gov\/agency\/medical-examiners-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cook County Medical Examiner<\/a> as 22-year-old Jermaine Martin, of Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>If you have any information, please contact Major Accident Investigation Unit at 312-<br \/>745-4521 or submit an anonymous tip at <a href=\"http:\/\/cpdtip.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CPDTIP.com<\/a> and use reference RD # JJ367808.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Chicago police are looking for the driver of a vehicle wanted in a hit-and-run crash that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-137372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115011075645997985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137372","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=137372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}