Officer Tangie Brown has been charged with driving drunk when she struck and killed Maria Schwab, of Texas, outside the House of Blues.
CHICAGO -- The family of a Texas woman who was killed in what police said was a drunk driving crash last year in the River North neighborhood filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday against the off-duty officer charged in the crash, and the bar where the officer had been drinking that night.Maria Schwab, 56, was walking outside the House of Blues around 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 7, when a car jumped the curb and hit her and a second woman.
Brown has since been indicted on two counts of aggravated DUI, one count of reckless homicide, and one count of aggravated use of a communication device involving death, according to court records.Prosecutors have said Brown admitted to having three drinks at a fellow officer's retirement party at Tree House before the crash, and her blood alcohol level measured 0.093 after the crash, above the legal limit of 0.08.
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