CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A Chicago Police officer, now relieved of police powers, appeared in court Monday on a number of charges related to a car crash that killed a pedestrian in early December.
The charges against the officer, 40-year-old Tangie Brown, include felony aggravated DUI involving death and aggravated use of a communication involving death.
Prosecutors said she was off-duty and had been drinking at a bar in River North before her car jumped a curb on State Street, struck and killed 56-year-old Maria Schwab who was visiting from Texas and injured another woman.
Attorney Tim Cavanagh is representing the Schwab family.
“It was notable that they weren’t able to take her BAC [Blood Alcohol Concentration] until two hours after,” he told CBS-2.
Brown’s BAC was 0.093. She, according to the police report, said she dropped her phone and lost control when she went to pick it up.
A prosecutor said she stayed in her car and did not assist the victims.
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