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3 years of periodic imprisonment for driver who fatally struck 14-year-old girl, injured 2 others in Waukegan

A Waukegan man was sentenced to three years of periodic imprisonment after pleading guilty to fatally hitting a 14-year-old girl with his car and then fleeing the scene. Jhonatan Lopez-Castaneda, 31, of Waukegan, was charged in August with failure to report an accident causing death and two counts of failure to report an accident causing […]

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‘This was all so sudden’: 14-year-old girl identified after being killed by hit-and-run driver in Waukegan

The coroner has identified a 14-year-old girl who was killed after a vehicle hit her while she was walking her bicycle Sunday evening in Waukegan. The driver, who fled the scene, was arrested. An autopsy showed that Delilah Shoemaker, 14, of Waukegan, died as a result of blunt force injuries from a crash, according to […]