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Police denynegligenceallegationsBy PETE REYNOLDSChicago Heights police, while offering condolences to the family of a 12-year-old girl killed when a car allegedly drag racing on the city’s West Side ran a stop sign and fatally struck her, have again denied they failed to take steps to avoid the tragedyThe dead girl’s cousin, Calvin Chiles, charged that police were slow to respond after the accident last Thursday evening and had ignored calls earlier in the day about drag racing in the Beacon Hill subdivision.Ghiles claimed that police took 15 to 20 minutes to respond after the accident occurred at 7:10 p.m. He further asserted in an interview withThe Star that area residents had called police at 2 p m. that day to request police take action to stop drag racing on Lawrence streetnearby“If they (police) had been doing their job, this fatality could have been prevented, charged Ghiles, a member of the Beacon Hill Develop-(Ptmm tern to Page A-2)
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Thu, Jun 28, 1990

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