Chicago police release photos of SUV sought in fatal Gage Park hit-and-run
The pedestrian, a 22-year-old man, was hit and killed while in the crosswalk just before 3:30 a.m. in the 5400 block of South Kedzie Avenue.
The medical examiners identified the victim as 22-year-old Jermaine Martin.
The driver ran a red light and hit him before fleeing northbound on Kedzie Avenue, last seen in the area of Archer Avenue and Sacramento Avenue. Surveillance cameras captured the crash.
The vehicle was described as a 2014 - 2024 Silver Toyota 4Runner Limited, with possible front-end damage on the front right side of the vehicle
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Major Accident Investigation Unit at 312-745-4521 or submit an anonymous tip at CPDTIP.com, using reference number JJ367808.
The video above is from an earlier report.
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For whatever hardship the NCAA's penalty for the Conor Stalions saga will cause the University of Michigan — a few new t-shirt slogans in Columbus, some slightly postponed redecorations to a couple stadium luxury suites — the larger truth is this: the Michigan case has revealed how fragile the NCAA's authority is now. The NCAA handed down its penalties in the Stalions sign-stealing controversy on Friday, and they ran pretty much as expected: a few years' probation, a substantial financial hit, plus heavy penalties for the coaches involved. But as the NCAA itself admitted, the landscape of college football has changed more rapidly than the regulations designed to oversee it, rendering ineffective or inappropriate many of the weapons it once used to enforce compliance. In its report released Friday, the NCAA indicated specifically that due to the severity of the violations and Michigan's status as a repeat offender, 'a postseason ban is required in this case.' However, just a few lines later, the report notes that 'a postseason ban would unfairly penalize student-athletes for the actions of coaches and staff who are no longer associated with the Michigan football program. Thus, a more appropriate penalty is an offsetting financial penalty.' That's it right there. The NCAA isn't hammering schools with program-wrecking postseason bans, it's just serving them with bills. And given the vast resources pouring into the game now, that's not a punishment that will leave a mark. There's no love lost between the NCAA and Michigan, and the NCAA swung as hard as it realistically could at the Wolverines. But the penalties will hit with all the force of a well-swung pillow. There's no better indication than this of how the NCAA's enforcement authority has dwindled in the face of mega-programs and the era of NIL. Not so long ago, even an accusation of impropriety was the equivalent of a guilty verdict for a program in the NCAA's sights. Guilty until proven innocent ran the mantra, and almost no program ever proved itself innocent. Nowhere was this more evident than in the case of SMU, which the NCAA literally blew off the college football map in 1987, hammering the Mustangs with a two-year 'death penalty' for constant and repeated recruiting violations. SMU remains the only school ever to receive the death penalty, in large part because the NCAA realized just how much power such a verdict held. The Mustangs needed decades to recover from the effects of the penalty, not returning to national relevance until just last season. (More on this in a moment.) Schools from Alabama to Penn State have stared down the barrel of the death penalty, but the NCAA held off from exercising that power. Instead, the NCAA has employed a combination of financial penalties, vacated wins and titles, scholarship reductions and postseason bans to discourage illegal activity. 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