A man and two teenage boys have been charged in connection with a three-vehicle crash that injured them and five other people, including a Chicago Police detective.
William Robinson, 34, faces a charges of aggravated fleeing an accident with property damage, leaving the scene of an accident with injuries and several other traffic violations in the crash that happened about 8:43 p.m. Thursday at 83rd Street and Indiana Avenue.
A 17-year-old boy, who remains hospitalized, was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number. A 15-year-old was cited with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by an individual under 21.
The crash left a Pontiac sport-utility vehicle that Robinson had been driving on its roof and also involved a Ford Fusion and a Dodge Intrepid a Fire Department spokesman said at the time. Video from the scene showed the Fusion was an unmarked police car.
The brief pursuit began after Gresham District police officers learned a vehicle may have had weapons and tried to pull it over near 80th Street and Indiana Avenue.
The vehicle, with three people inside, fled and hit an unmarked Chicago Police car -- the Dodge Intrepid -- traveling west on 83rd Street before hitting another vehicle that was traveling east on 83rd Street.
Four occupants of the third vehicle were injured, and three occupants of the SUV police tried to stop were among the eight injured,.
The unmarked police car wasn't involved in the pursuit.
Four women who had been in the Intrepid were seriously injured in the crash. The officer injured in his police vehicle was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital in fair-to-serious condition but was expected to fully recover.
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