$250K bond for motorist charged in fatal hit-and-run on SW Side
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Fernando Marin
Ida Quintanilla
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -
Bond was set at $250,000 Sunday for a motorist charged in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a 58-year-old woman walking in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood Thursday night.
Fernando Marin, 30, of the 4500 block of South Drake Avenue, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that caused injury or death, driving on a revoked license, not giving the right of way to a pedestrian and not having insurance, according to police News Affairs.
Ida Quintanilla was struck by a dark-colored SUV in the 4500 block of South Archer Avenue about 8:40 p.m., police said.
The driver of the SUV fled the scene, police said.
Quintanilla, of the 2600 block of West Montgomery Avenue, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where she died at 9:20 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Bond was set at $250,000 for Marin during bond court on Sunday.
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Fernando Marin
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