A 2-year-old girl died after she was ejected from a car that crashed while fleeing a traffic stop in the Roseland neighborhood on Chicago’s Far South Side Sunday evening, according to police.
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The driver was in custody early Monday, with charges pending. Officers found a gun in the car, a source said.
Police tried to pull over the 1999 black Chrysler around 8:45 p.m. in the 10700 block of South Michigan Avenue, authorities said. The car sped off and was northbound in the 10700 block of South Calumet Avenue when it ran a stop sign, colliding with a 2002 white Acura that had been going west on 107th Street, police said.
The Chrysler hit a tree and the girl, Danyla Owens, was flung from the car and suffered head injuries. She was taken to Roseland Hospital, where she was pronounced dead around 9:25 p.m.
A police source said the girl was not in a car seat. She lived in the 12200 block of South Wallace Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The Chrysler’s driver, a 21-year-old man, declined medical treatment and was in police custody. The other two passengers, women ages 21 and 26, were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and stabilized, police said.
A 62-year-old man who had been driving the Acura and a 35-year-old woman who was in the car were both stabilized at a hospital with injuries that did not appear life-threatening, police said.