A man was struck and killed in a hit-and-run late Saturday in the Gresham neighborhood, police said.
Just before midnight, a 45-year-old man was traveling east in a 2000 Cadillac on West 80th Street when he was broadsided by a motorist in a red Dodge pickup truck traveling south on South Peoria Street, according to police.
The driver of the pickup truck fled, leaving the truck on scene.
The man was identified as Lincoln Dembry, of the 12800 block of South Lowe Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
He was pronounced dead at 12:36 a.m. at Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, a medical examiner's spokeswoman said.T
The Major Accident Investigation Unit is investigating.
No one was in custody.
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This Was My Papa.. He Raised Me And My Little Cousins, brother and sister. I Am The Oldest && His Babygirl. My Grandfather was a very loving man. I miss him and it is eating me up that this was alomst an year ago and nobody turn theirselves in or caught. I will feel alot better if they come and tell the family that they found the person who did this. How can you kill somebody, take somebody life and dont feel no way about it? This world ain't right at all. They Took SOmebody that i loved more then life itself. I went back to church and attend chore rehearsel almost every Wedensday bc of him, im going to skool and BECOMING a doctor cus the last time we spoke i was tellin him what im going to be, and i promised him that. Im 16 going to be 17 in 5 more months and im actin like a big baby when it come down to my papa.! I LOVE YU PAPA AND I PROMISE YU WILL NEVA BE 4GOTTEN.. THE PERSON THAT DID THIS TO YU WILL GET WHATS COMING TO THEM. WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE IT IN GOD'S HANDS, IMA PRAY HARDER FOR THEM TO FIND THE PERSON THAT DID THIS TO YU :'(
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