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A 40-year-old tourist visiting Chicago with her boyfriend was killed in the early hours of Sunday as a pair of Corvettes believed to be drag racing spun out of control and plowed into her on a crosswalk.
Shawman Meireis, a business consultant from Naples, Florida, was walking to a late dinner after a music festival at 1:40 AM when the red C8 Corvette smashed into her.
Mereis' boyfriend, Eric Eanone, grabbed the 27-year-old gang banger driver of the car after it spun to a stop, flung him against a lamp post, and yelled at him:
'You killed my girlfriend,' witnesses told The Chicago Sun-Times.
The driver and a 19-year-old woman in a blue Corvette had been seen revving their engines at a stop light, before hitting the gas and speeding down Cicero Avenue, near Midway Airport.
Police and witnesses said the two cars were cutting across lanes to block each other, weaving through traffic until the red Corvette hit Meireis.
The blue Corvette sped off, leaving Meireis fighting for her life. She was pronounced dead in hospital.
The incident was one of many illegal street 'take overs' to be reported in Chicago on the weekend.
Streets across the city were blocked by large groups filming drivers performing 'doughnuts', sometimes with passengers hanging out the windows.
Other onlookers got close to the swerving cars, jumping on the hood and leaning in to film.
Videos shared on social media also showed large crowds of people gathered in the heart of downtown, at the intersections in the trendy West Loop and restaurant-filled South Loop districts.
There were also drag racing and drifting events in East Pilsen, Downtown and the Near West Side, police said.
Nine people were arrested, seven cars were impounded cars and six police cars were damaged after participants threw fireworks, bricks, and rocks at officers.
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Example of what city street look like now since certain people never get arrested
Shawman Meireis, a business consultant from Naples, Florida, was walking to a late dinner after a music festival at 1:40 AM when the red C8 Corvette smashed into her.
Mereis' boyfriend, Eric Eanone, grabbed the 27-year-old gang banger driver of the car after it spun to a stop, flung him against a lamp post, and yelled at him:
'You killed my girlfriend,' witnesses told The Chicago Sun-Times.
The driver and a 19-year-old woman in a blue Corvette had been seen revving their engines at a stop light, before hitting the gas and speeding down Cicero Avenue, near Midway Airport.
Police and witnesses said the two cars were cutting across lanes to block each other, weaving through traffic until the red Corvette hit Meireis.
The blue Corvette sped off, leaving Meireis fighting for her life. She was pronounced dead in hospital.
The incident was one of many illegal street 'take overs' to be reported in Chicago on the weekend.
Streets across the city were blocked by large groups filming drivers performing 'doughnuts', sometimes with passengers hanging out the windows.
Other onlookers got close to the swerving cars, jumping on the hood and leaning in to film.
Videos shared on social media also showed large crowds of people gathered in the heart of downtown, at the intersections in the trendy West Loop and restaurant-filled South Loop districts.
There were also drag racing and drifting events in East Pilsen, Downtown and the Near West Side, police said.
Nine people were arrested, seven cars were impounded cars and six police cars were damaged after participants threw fireworks, bricks, and rocks at officers.
See it :
Example of what city street look like now since certain people never get arrested
