Man Charged In 2013 Chase, Crash That Killed 11-Year-Old Boy
CHICAGO (STMW) -- The suspect in a series of carjackings — including one that led to the death of an 11-year-old South Side boy — has been extradited to Chicago from Wisconsin to face criminal charges.
Rockie Douglas, 36, was charged with two counts of murder, one count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon and one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle, according to Chicago Police. He was extradited from Wisconsin Tuesday and is expected to appear in bond court Wednesday.
Douglas, of north suburban Beach Park, stole a 60-year-old woman's vehicle in the 800 block of West Irving Park Road about 11:20 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2013, police said.
Officers chased the vehicle across the city to the intersection of Garfield and Halsted, authorities said at the time. Douglas then crashed into a Chevrolet Suburban, occupied by 11-year-old Donovan Turnage and his family, who were going to get haircuts for Christmas.
Donovan, a fifth-grader at Morrill Math and Science School, was taken to the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:35 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Douglas then stole another vehicle before fleeing the state, authorities said at the time. He was arrested on Christmas Eve 2013 in a McDonald's drive-thru in Milwaukee and was held in the county jail until Tuesday.
At the time of his arrest, he was serving a seven-year probation sentence for burglary in Wisconsin, authorities previously said.
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