Teen killed in Gary hit-and-run crash

Gary Police arrested a man in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a 17-year-old Gary girl early Saturday morning.

Officers were called around 5:51 a.m. January 4 to the intersection of 5th Avenue and Madison Street for a possible hit-and-run, Gary Police Cmdr. Jack Hamady said in a release Saturday night. They arrived to find a large pile of debris in the middle of the roadway near the intersection and a teen girl lying on the north side of 5th Avenue with extensive injuries, he said.

They also found an electric motorized scooter in the roadway, he said.

Gary Fire Department advised the girl was dead, Hamady said, and the Lake County Coroner’s Office, as well as the Gary Police Crime Scene Unit and Gary Police Hit and Run Investigators, were notified. Witnesses at the scene said the vehicle involved in the crash had left the scene before they got there, so investigators from Hit and Run as well as the Real Time Crime Center and Investigations began working on-scene, he said.

The Lake County Coroner’s office identified the girl as Eunikue Roberson, of the 1600 block of 11th Avenue, according to a release.

A search warrant was applied for and executed at a residence where the suspect’s vehicle was seized and a man taken into custody. Gary Police will present charges to the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office this week, Hamady said.

Michelle L. Quinn is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.