Crime & Safety
Handcuffed Man Hit By 2 Cars After Fleeing Police
A man escaped a prisoner transport van on the South Side Monday morning only to get hit by two cars shortly after.
CHICAGO — A man was hit by two cars Monday morning, after escaping from police custody on the Far South Side.
Police said 22-year-old Darrell Brewer, facing drug and gun charges, was in the back of a prisoner transport van, which arrived at the South Chicago District on the 2200 block of East 103rd Street in the South Deering neighborhood shortly before 6 a.m. The van was being used to transport prisoners from police stations to court, and Brewer had been picked up at the Gresham District station before arriving at the South Chicago station.
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