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| Jepson Livingston (left), Tyrice Pryor (right, Chicago Police booking photo) |
Posted: Thursday, 17 December 2009 1:45PM
Man Charged With Slamming Into, Killing Cyclist
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CHICAGO (CBS) ― A 21-year-old North Side man has been charged with murder, after police said he purposely struck and killed a bicyclist with his van in Logan Square.
Tyrice Pryor, of the 6100 block of North Hamilton Avenue, was charged with murder, police confirmed to CBS 2. The charge was approved at 1:05 a.m., police said.
Bond for Pryor was set at $2 million Wednesday by Judge Donald Panarese Jr.
Pryor is accused of driving a van that fatally struck bicyclist Jepson Livingston, 32, about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 3800 block of West Diversey Avenue, police said. Officials said Livingston was knocked off his bike and left for dead in the middle of Avers Avenue.
Livingston, of the 2700 block of North St. Louis Avenue, was pronounced dead less than half an hour later at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
At about 12:30 p.m., Pryor was sitting in a van in the parking lot near 3833 W. Diversey after buying a third vehicle, Asst. State's Atty. Angel Essig siad at the bond hearing. The second driver -- his best friend since third grade -- confronted Pryor because he had also wanted to buy the vehicle.
The second driver then knocked the windows out of the third vehicle, according to Essig.
A police report indicated Pryor then drove east on Diversey at a high rate of speed, chasing the other vehicle. Pryor's vehicle allegedly rear-ended or rammed the other near 3833 W. Diversey, according to the report.
The collision caused both vehicles to go out of control -- with the vehicle Pryor was driving striking Livingston, who was biking west on Diversey, according to the report.
The other van crashed into Superior Motor Sports at the corner of Diversey and Avers.
A Wednesday autopsy determined Livingston died from multiple injuries from a van striking a bicycle and the death was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner's office said.
Pryor allegedly fled the scene on foot and was later found at his home, where he was placed under arrest at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the report. Pryor allegedly left the van with passengers inside.
The people inside the black van that smashed through Superior Motor Sports also ran away, although one of them apparently came back in what Superior Motor Sports owner Javier Medina said was a futile attempt to try and retrieve the stereo.
Edward Ziemba, 48, of Cicero, Livingston's uncle, was at Pryor's bond hearing Thursday and said the second driver should also be charged.
"It's stupid. Someone lost their life because of two idiots," Ziemba said.
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
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