Driver hit woman on three-wheeler at 63 mph, asked if he had killed someone, then walked away: prosecutors

A driver was going 63 mph in a 30 mph zone when he slammed into a woman on a three-wheeled motorcycle stopped at a South Side intersection, prosecutors said. He then got out of his SUV, asked a witness if he had killed someone, and walked away.

Despite those allegations, a Cook County judge refused to keep him in jail to await trial.

Churone Walls, 48, was stopped at the intersection of 79th Street and Hoyne Avenue around 7 p.m. on July 24, when Darryl Short, 45, came barreling up behind her in a Volkswagen Atlas at more than twice the speed limit, according to a detention filing. Video showed Short disregarded the stop sign and “attempted to overtake” Walls, prosecutors said. Instead, the Atlas struck Walls and her three-wheeled motorcycle…

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