Woman charged with felony DUI in crash that killed 2 on Eisenhower Expressway
CHICAGO -- A woman has been charged with driving drunk and causing a crash that left two people dead on the Eisenhower Expressway this past weekend.Ashanti Gates, 21, of Chicago, stood charged Tuesday with two counts each of felony aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol and reckless homicide, as well as child endangerment.Illinois State Police were called at 3 a.m. Sunday for the crash on the westbound Eisenhower west of Paulina Street.
Gates was driving a black Hyundai, which slammed right into the parked Toyota and two of the people who were outside changing the tire. Those two people – Erik Cox, 18, of Rolling Meadows, and Shaelyn Sherwood, also 18, of Hoffman Estates, died at the scene.The third person in the Toyota was not struck, state police said.There were a total of five people in the Hyundai with Gates, including as 4-year-old boy, Illinois State Police said.
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