Services Set for Correctional Officer Killed in Hit-And-Run

Visitation services will be held Wednesday afternoon for Nikkii Bostic-Jones

UPDATE: Service Held...

Visitation services will be held Wednesday afternoon for the Cook County jail guard who died last week in a hit-and-run crash.

Friends and family can mourn the loss of 38-year-old Nikkii Bostic-Jones from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Fountain Jordan Shepard funeral home, 418 S. Cicero Ave.

Funeral services for the wife and mother will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at United Baptist Church, 4242 W. Roosevelt Road. Bostic-Jones will lie in state an hour before the funeral and will be buried immediately following the service.

The correctional officer was hit by a van Wednesday night while crossing the street near 29th and California on her way to work at the Cook County Jail.

Juan Bello, 57, faces charges of reckless homicide, leaving the scene of an accident involving death, failure to yield to a pedestrian, driving too fast for conditions, and driving on a revoked license.

Bail was set at $3 million Saturday for Bello, who lives near the Cook County Jail complex in the Little Village neighborhood.

According to records, Juan Bello received court supervision in 2002 for a DUI from LaSalle County. Bello was arrested in September of 2009 for a DUI in Iowa.

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