Teen Charged with DUI after 15-Year-Old Girl Dies

Police: driver flees scene, later reports car vandalised

An allegedly drunk teenage driver who struck and killed a 15-year-old girl in north suburban Prospect Heights Saturday night initially fled the scene -- only to call police and report his car vandalized an hour later, according to authorities.

Kevin Schuh, 17, of Mount Prospect, was arrested and charged with aggravated DUI with great bodily harm and reckless homicide, Prospect Heights police Chief Bruce Morris said.

At about 11 p.m. Saturday, Monika Skrzypkowski was leaving a park with friends in the 200 block of North Elmhurst Road and attempting to cross the street when she was struck by a car, police said.  She was pronounced dead at Northwest Community Healthcare in Arlington Heights just after midnight.

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