Overview
- Detectives questioned a person of interest Monday after a 65-year-old woman was struck and killed in a crosswalk in Belmont Cragin Sunday night.
- The woman was walking south in the marked crosswalk at Belmont and Central around 9:30 p.m. Sunday when a red pickup heading south on Central hit her and drove off.
- Chicago Fire Department crews tried to save her, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Police later found a red pickup believed to be involved that was recovered unoccupied, and the CPD Major Accident Investigation Unit is leading the probe.
- No other injuries were reported, and city data show this was Chicago’s seventh fatal hit-and-run of 2026, up from three at the same point last year.