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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Yahoo
Man charged in fatal West Ridge crash that killed boy released pending trial
A Cook County judge on Wednesday released a Rolling Meadows man on electronic monitoring while he awaits court proceedings after he was charged with reckless homicide for striking a car and killing a 14-year-old passenger in the West Ridge neighborhood last January. Judge Ankur Srivastava denied the state's petition to detain 25-year-old William Andrade pending trial and placed him on electronic monitoring with set hours of movement allowed for work. Andrade was arrested in West Ridge on Monday, authorities said.. Prosecutors claimed Andrade was behind the wheel of a 2013 Ford Fiesta that 'blew through a stop sign' at the intersection of North Albany Avenue and West Rosemont Avenue around 12:16 a.m. on January 30. Andrade's vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, struck a 2024 Acura with four people inside, two adults in the front and two teenagers in the back, according to assistant state's attorney Mike Pekara. Emergency services were called and Andrade stayed on scene, admitting to officers to driving, speeding and not stopping at the stop sign, Pekara said. Andrade had just left work shortly before the crash and was also going to give a coworker a ride home, Pekara said. The driver of the Acura sustained a fractured rib and a leg injury, and the front seat passenger suffered a knee fracture. The injured 14-year-old boy in the rear seat, identified as Danial Dadako, was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston and then transferred to Lurie Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Feb. 2. The accident scene was just four blocks from the teen's West Ridge home. Andrade's defense attorney argued that their client did not need to be detained because he didn't pose a risk to the community, specifically because he complied with officers on the scene after the crash and was cooperative even when officers arrested him on Monday. The attorney also pointed out that neither drugs nor alcohol were found in Andrade's system, citing blood and urine samples. Srivastava said the fatal crash was 'unbelievably horrific,' but added that Andrade would live with this tragedy and should be allowed to continue contributing to society while under the court's supervision. 'Nothing is going to bring this child back,' Srivastava said. The judge also barred Andrade from driving anywhere aside from work. He is scheduled to return to court on June 24.
Chicago Tribune
6 days ago
- Chicago Tribune
Man charged in fatal West Ridge crash that killed boy released pending trial
A Cook County judge on Wednesday released a Rolling Meadows man on electronic monitoring while he awaits court proceedings after he was charged with reckless homicide for striking a car and killing a 14-year-old passenger in the West Ridge neighborhood last January. Judge Ankur Srivastava denied the state's petition to detain 25-year-old William Andrade pending trial and placed him on electronic monitoring with set hours of movement allowed for work. Andrade was arrested in West Ridge on Monday, authorities said.. Prosecutors claimed Andrade was behind the wheel of a 2013 Ford Fiesta that 'blew through a stop sign' at the intersection of North Albany Avenue and West Rosemont Avenue around 12:16 a.m. on January 30. Andrade's vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, struck a 2024 Acura with four people inside, two adults in the front and two teenagers in the back, according to assistant state's attorney Mike Pekara. Emergency services were called and Andrade stayed on scene, admitting to officers to driving, speeding and not stopping at the stop sign, Pekara said. Andrade had just left work shortly before the crash and was also going to give a coworker a ride home, Pekara said. The driver of the Acura sustained a fractured rib and a leg injury, and the front seat passenger suffered a knee fracture. The injured 14-year-old boy in the rear seat, identified as Danial Dadako, was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston and then transferred to Lurie Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Feb. 2. The accident scene was just four blocks from the teen's West Ridge home. Andrade's defense attorney argued that their client did not need to be detained because he didn't pose a risk to the community, specifically because he complied with officers on the scene after the crash and was cooperative even when officers arrested him on Monday. The attorney also pointed out that neither drugs nor alcohol were found in Andrade's system, citing blood and urine samples. Srivastava said the fatal crash was 'unbelievably horrific,' but added that Andrade would live with this tragedy and should be allowed to continue contributing to society while under the court's supervision. 'Nothing is going to bring this child back,' Srivastava said. The judge also barred Andrade from driving anywhere aside from work. He is scheduled to return to court on June 24.
Chicago Tribune
15-05-2025
- Health
- Chicago Tribune
Daquan Ford: We youths need Chicago leaders to engage, listen and act
As the city and civic leaders are figuring out how to respond to teen trends and debate over curfews, the bigger issue has been ignored — a mental health crisis affecting Chicago's youths. The flare-ups of violence at a few of these events don't come from young people gathering. It's the feelings of hopelessness for many young people. They come from being so often stereotyped and perceived as problems to solve, experiencing family separation and having negative experiences with law enforcement. Then COVID-19 made these issues even more intense. Many young people had to remain at home, sometimes in difficult family situations and without safe spaces for them to find support and care. With limited positive outlets for sharing their frustrations and hurt, they look for community elsewhere and sometimes turn to activities that limit their ability to thrive. Those of us who have been youth researchers in a participatory action research group project have seen strong evidence of these problems. In our work among young men of color in our city, we found that 66% of those we interviewed and surveyed, from neighborhoods on the South and West sides, said that they were facing mental health challenges. How are institutions supposed to address the real problem affecting our city — the unmet mental health needs among young people? We can look at how some institutions in our city are turning to young people to create solutions to address mental health. Between 2019 and 2022, Communities United, in partnership with Lurie Children's Hospital, helped a group of 15 young men of color design the Ujima Project. The name comes from a Swahili word meaning 'collective work and responsibility,' representing our desire to understand the mental health challenges we face as young men. Many of us have shared experiences related to mental health, but the young men we interviewed felt that the systems that served them at times did not prioritize their concerns and, instead, created strict rules with limited understanding of their individual needs. Many said they crave the chance to find outlets that are positive, where they can show their talents and become leaders. In a very important result, young men expressed they wanted increased access to mental health professionals of color who come from similar communities. In response to our report, Lurie created a pipeline program for high school and college students, with backgrounds and life experiences similar to my own, who are interested in pursuing a career in mental health. 'Listening to youth needs and solutions makes our institutions better and more impactful,' said Mary Kate Daly, vice president of the hospital's Healthy Communities. 'We've had pipeline programs now at Lurie Children's for 20-plus years, but we never thought to have a specific program for aspiring mental health professionals until the Ujima youth recommended it.' As a senior at Mather High School, I am excited about the possibilities for my future, and Daly said she was excited to be working with us. My dream is to work hard in college and study psychology, to have a career providing mental health therapy services for people who do not have enough money to pay for services. If we want to ensure that all young people feel this same sense of hope and see positive possibilities for their future, we need more institutions to create opportunities to listen to their ideas and solutions. And more importantly, they need to take action like Lurie Children's Hospital did.
The Star
06-05-2025
- Health
- The Star
American climber dies during charity ascent on world's fifth-highest peak in Nepal
Alexander Pancoe, 39, died on Sunday while settling into his sleeping bag at the mountain's second high camp. - Photo: Reuters KATHMANDU: An American mountaineer died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal during a climb to raise funds for a children's cancer programme, officials said on Tuesday (May 6). This marks the second death in the Himalayan nation's climbing season that began in March. The world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu's peak is 8,463m high, compared with Mount Everest, the tallest peak, at a height of 8,849m. Alexander Pancoe, 39, died on Sunday (May 4) while settling into his sleeping bag at the mountain's second high camp, after returning from an acclimatisation trip at the higher camp three, expedition organiser Madison Mountaineering said. 'Alex suddenly became unresponsive,' the company said on its website. 'Despite hours of resuscitation effort... they were unable to revive him.' Nepal's tourism department said it was arranging to bring the body to Kathmandu, the capital. Pancoe, who survived a brain tumour when younger, had completed the Explorer's Grand Slam – climbing the highest peaks on each of the seven continents and then skiing to both the North and South Poles. He had been battling chronic myeloid leukemia and was attempting to climb Makalu to raise funds for the pediatric blood cancer programme of the Chicago-based Lurie Children's Hospital, said expedition leader Garrett Madison. He had already raised US$1 million to help fund clinical trials and other programmes there, Madison added. In April, a Nepali sherpa died on Mount Annapurna, the world's 10th highest mountain. Wedged between India and China, landlocked Nepal is home to eight of the world's 14 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and its economy is heavily reliant on climbing, trekking, and tourism for foreign exchange. - Reuters
Hindustan Times
05-05-2025
- Health
- Hindustan Times
Who was Alexander Pancoe? US climber dies in Nepal while trying to scale world's 5th highest mountain
A US climber died attempting to scale the world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, his expedition organiser said Monday, the second death of this climbing season. Alexander Pancoe, 39, died at Camp 2 of the 8,485-metre (27,838-feet) Makalu on Sunday evening. 'He had descended after an acclimatisation rotation to Camp Three, and was not feeling well,' Iswari Paudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal, told AFP. Paudel said that attempts were being made to bring his body down. An accomplished climber, Pancoe had survived a brain tumour when he was younger. He had completed the Explorer's Grand Slam, a challenge that involves climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents and then skiing to both the North and South Pole. Pancoe was recently fighting chronic myeloid leukaemia and was attempting to climb Makalu to raise funds for the paediatric blood cancer programme of the Lurie Children's Hospital, based in Chicago. 'It's going to be a huge challenge for me -- climbing at altitude is plenty hard without a chronic ailment -- but I look forward to rising to the challenge,' he said on his website Peaks of Mind. An Austrian climber died while descending Nepal's Ama Dablam after a successful summit last month, the first death of the summit season. Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and welcomes hundreds of climbers every year during the spring and autumn climbing seasons. It has already issued nearly 500 permits for its mountains this season, including 214 for Everest.
