A south suburban man is in police custody following a fatal hit-and-run in Tinley Park last night.
Rajendrakumar Shah, 61, was crossing 159th Street southbound on 80th Avenue at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when he was hit by a driver, according to Tinley Park Police Cmdr. Patrick McCain.
Orland Hills resident Erin Henrichs, 27, said she was walking out of Walgreens at the time when she heard what sounded like a car crash.
“I heard the loud boom and there was a man laying in the middle of the road when I walked up to (her family’s) car,” Henrichs said. “It was horrible.”
Henrichs said she walked over to check on the scene. From where she stood on the side of the road, she the man appeared to be dead.
“He wasn’t breathing,” Henrichs recalled. “It makes my stomach turn.”
The victim was lying in the middle of the road, “where a median should be,” Henrichs said. She said she saw one of his bags, as well as his shoe, on the ground several feet away.
Shah was on foot when he was struck by the driver, police said.
Police have arrested a suspect in the case, McCain said, and are preparing charges based on "evidence at the scene."
Police declined to provide more details at this time but said the suspect is a 22-year old man from the south suburbs.
Shah's family declined to comment, citing the pending criminal investigation.
Henrichs said she saw the Tinley Park response team show up immediately, “so fast it was unbelievable.”
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