{"id":33054,"date":"2025-07-02T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:45:14","slug":"chicago-man-charged-in-fatal-berwyn-hit-and-run-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33054\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man charged in fatal Berwyn hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>COOK COUNTY<\/strong> &#8211; A Chicago man is facing a felony charge after police say he fled the scene of a crash that killed a pedestrian in Berwyn early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Berwyn police responded to Oak Park Avenue and Windsor Avenue around 3 a.m. on June 29 after a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Officers arrived within one minute and found 53-year-old Omar Sharif of Chicago critically injured.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Sharif was taken to MacNeal Hospital, where he died from his injuries. Police said the vehicle involved had fled before they arrived.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Detectives interviewed witnesses and gathered surveillance video from public and private cameras. They determined the suspect&#8217;s vehicle was registered in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police later found the vehicle parked in Chicago with damage to its hood and front bumper. The car was towed to the Berwyn Police Department for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The owner, identified as 49-year-old Anthony Berry of Chicago, contacted police and made incriminating statements, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/berry.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The Cook County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office reviewed the case and approved one count of leaving the scene of a crash involving death, a Class 1 felony.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police have not released details about what Berry told investigators.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">He is scheduled for a detention hearing on Wednesday at the Maybrook Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article was provided by the Berwyn Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <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\/us\/il\/cook-county\/berwyn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berwyn<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/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":"COOK COUNTY &#8211; A Chicago man is facing a felony charge after police say he fled the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[14671,960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-33054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-berwyn","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-cook-county","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114784654081505633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33054","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=33054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}