Driver in custody after pedestrian killed, 4 others injured in hit-and-run on I-290 ramp

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 27-year-old Kentucky man was killed and four other people were injured in a hit-and-run Sunday morning on an Eisenhower Expressway exit ramp on the West Side, Illinois State Police said.

A female driver was in custody Sunday evening, but no charges had been filed.

Shortly before 5 a.m., police received a call about a person in the roadway at the Homan Avenue exit ramp of the Eisenhower Expressway. The victims were in a cab that had broken down on the Eisenhower and they decided to walk up the exit ramp.
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The five people were then struck by a car exiting the expressway.

The driver did not stop, but her damaged Kia Optima was found just blocks away from the crash scene. The car had extensive front end damage.
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The man who was killed was been identified to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office as 27-year-old Anan Ahmed H. Albalawi. of Morehead, Kentucky.