Ashanti Gates charged with drunken driving in I-290 crash that killed Shaelyn Sherwood and Erik Cox and a 4-year-old boy near Paulina Avenue; ISP

CHICAGO (WLS) — A woman has been charged in connection with a fatal traffic crash on the Eisenhower Expressway that occurred early Sunday on Chicago’s West Side, Illinois State Police said.

The accident occurred west of Paulina Avenue on the west side of Interstate 290 shortly after 3 a.m.

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ISP said the driver of a white Toyota sedan pulled over to the right shoulder with its hazard lights on. Three people got out of the Toyota to repair a burning car.

Then 21-year-old Ashanti Gates of Chicago drove her black Hyundai Sonata into the Toyota and two passengers, ISP said.

The two victims, 18-year-old Erik C. Cox of Rolling Meadows and 18-year-old Shaelyn M. Sherwood of Hoffman Estates, were pronounced dead at the scene.

The third person in the Toyota was not hit.

A four-year-old boy was among the five occupants of the Hyundai. Gates, the child and another person from the Hyundai were taken to local hospitals with injuries.

Gates was charged with two counts of driving under the influence, two counts of vehicular manslaughter and child endangerment, ISP said Tuesday.

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