A woman who helped a gunman carry out a brazen carjacking in the middle of the Dan Ryan Expressway, an incident that gained nationwide attention in a viral video, has been sentenced to six years in prison.
Starreese Vickers, 23, of Calumet City, pleaded guilty to vehicular hijacking in exchange for the sentence from Judge Paul Pavlus, according to court records. Under Illinois law, she will receive the standard 50% sentence reduction and credit for time spent on electronic monitoring while the case was pending. Records indicate she is expected to be paroled in November.
While carjacking a driver in the traffic lanes of a Chicago expressway is newsworthy enough, this case gained widespread attention because another driver captured the entire scene on video as it unfolded shortly after 10 a.m. on October 14, 2022…