A 40-year-old Chicago man Octavio Lara Chavez charged with driving under the influence in a crash that killed a US Marine Sergeant, Nikolas Hutto while he was changing his tire alongside the expressway.
Relatives say Hutto had just left the Chicago Blackhawks game at the United Center, and was headed to the suburbs with friends for deep-dish pizza when he hit a pot hole on the Stevenson Expressway. While he changed a tire, Illinois State Police said, the driver of a pickup left the road, hitting and killing Nik and injuring his two friends.
Lara Chavez has been now charged with aggravated involving death and aggravated DUI involving great bodily harm in the crash that killed Nikolas Hutto Sunday night, Illinois State Police said Wednesday.
He was hospitalized after the crash with non-life threatening injuries.
Lara Chavez is next due in court April 30.
