2 members of dance team killed others injured in Bishop Ford rollover crash, family says

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two beloved members of the Empiire Dance Institute, an award-winning dance team on the South Side of Chicago, were killed in the early morning rollover crash on the Bishop Ford Freeway.

The crash occurred at about 1:15 a.m. at the I-94 northbound ramp at 111th Street.

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Two other dancers who were hurt are being treated here at the hospital.

"I'm calling and calling and calling him and he's not answering. I'm texting him. He's not responding," Angela Hongo, a mother of one of the victims, said.

Hongo said her teenage son, Boaz Flemister, was coming home from an event with his dance team late Wednesday night.

She was tracking his location on her phone and when it suddenly stopped, she knew, something terrible had happened.

"And then his coach called me and said Angie, I don't know how to tell you what just happened. I'm like, 'OK what happened?'" Hongo said.

The vehicle he was in carrying five members from The Empiire Dance Institute somehow lost control and rolled over on the Bishop Ford 111th St. entrance ramp.

"I believe they hit a pothole and the car flipped over," Dwayne Moore, co-CEO of Empiire Dance Institute, said. "They were ejected out of the back window and three ejected out the front window, that's catastrophe."

Bo, 17, and his dance director 23-year-old Lazuras Gonzales also known as "Hollywood" were killed.

"Great kids, great youth, dancers in the city of Chicago elite champions, elite championship dancers," Moore said. "Hollywood is the director of the number one dance team in the city of Chicago a household rapper. Isaiah (Bo) is a top three champion dancer. These kids are out of the way, they're doing something positive and it's just unfortunate. They were out having fun and this happened. I'm sick."

Eight-time champions of the Bud Billiken Parade, the dance troop had just practiced together earlier that day.

A junior at the Art in Motion Art School in South Shore Bo's dreams and aspirations are now cut short.

"Bo was a young man, he's been around us since he was eight years old, and he has always been outspoken, even to this day," Latisha Waters, CEO and founder of Empiire Dance Institute, said. " Always came in and always cracked jokes. We just brought in New Year's together. We have done so much together."

He was the life of any party," Hongo said. "He just likes to have fun and for his life to be cut short over something like this it's not imaginable."

The group's CEO said they will forever dance in their memory.

"We're going to still do this for them," Moore said. "Everything we're doing is going to be for them now for sure."

It's unclear what led to the driver losing control.

Meanwhile, all traffic has reopened on the Bishop Ford.