Sept. 05--A Glenwood man charged in a fatal August hit-and-run accident in the Washington Heights neighborhood told friends he had struck a woman with his car after a dispute with another woman he had gone out with that night, prosecutors said Friday.
Thomas Hicks, 26, is charged with failure to report an accident causing death in the accident about 11:30 p.m. Aug. 19 in the 9500 block of South Vincennes Avenue, according to police and prosecutors. Davean Smith, 48, was pronounced dead about 12:43 a.m. Aug. 20 after the collision, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Hicks was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail in a hearing Friday before Cook County Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr., according to prosecutors and court records.
Smith was walking in the street when Hicks, driving a 2012 Nissan Sentra, drove up and hit her with the passenger side of his car, then drove off and went home, said Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Steve Campbell.
A passer-by found Smith fatally injured and called police. Officers found a shard of plastic, apparently from a car headlamp, at the scene, prosecutors said.
The next day, Hicks' roommate saw the Nissan had a 6-inch spiderweb break in the windshield, damage to the passenger-side wheel well and front bumper and a piece missing from a headlight cover, prosecutors said. Hicks seemed out of sorts for the next few days and had the car repaired, prosecutors said.
Hicks also told other people he was out with a woman before the accident and got into an argument, after which he headed home alone and hit another woman who was walking along his route, prosecutors said.
Hicks, of the 100 block of East Mulberry Drive in Glenwood, was scheduled to appear in court again Sept. 23.
