Woman struck in 2019 by Chicago police SUV has now died, leaving family with questions
Rain Standley, right, gathers with family members while talking about her sister, Martina Standley, on Sept. 13, 2022, on East 71st Street near South Jeffery Boulevard in South Shore. Martina was struck by a Chicago police vehicle in November 2019 at that location. She died in January.
, causing serious injuries. Bodycam video showed Standley lying on the sidewalk and bleeding from her head while officers at the scene waited for paramedics.Standley died in her sleep on Jan. 30 of this year, Williams said, five days after her 35th birthday. But she has yet to receive an autopsy report or death certificate showing Standley’s cause of death. She said she believes it was a direct result of the injuries she suffered in 2019.
“We send our deepest condolences to Ms. Standley’s family and recognize they are awaiting our findings. The office is working diligently to close this case and bring closure to the family.”murder by Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke in 2014, has been fighting with the city since Standley’s accident for accountability and joined Williams on Tuesday.Williams said what happened to her daughter is especially sad for her family because Williams’ father was a Chicago police officer for 37 years.
On Monday, Cook County Judge Alison Conlon ruled in favor of Calloway, who had sued the Chicago Police Department in 2019 for denying his FOIA request of “all dashcam, bodycam, audio recordings, and police reports collected as part of the investigation into the squad car striking Martina Standley in South Shore,” according to a news release about the case. He is being represented by Merrick Wayne, an attorney with Loevy & Loevy.
Standley’s younger brother, Misterrico Standley, said that Standley was staying at his South Shore home for her birthday weekend with some other family members when she died. He said he went to work that morning “not knowing she was gone,” then got a phone call at work from one of their cousins to tell him what had happened.
Eric Williams, a police accountability advocate, talks to reporters in front of family members of Martina Standley on Sept. 13, 2022, in South Shore at the location where Standley was struck by a Chicago police vehicle in November 2019.
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