Authorities on Tuesday released the names of the other two victims in an ambulance crash on Saturday that left three dead in Bellwood.
Larry Marshall, 48, of Bellwood, died after the ambulance transporting him from a dialysis center suddenly careened into a building. Prentis Williams, 50, of Chicago, who was a passenger in the ambulance, was also killed in the crash, according to Bellwood police Chief Jiminez Allen.
James Wesley, 51, of Chicago, whose name was released Saturday, was driving the Excel Medical ambulance when for an unknown reason he lost control and ran into the G.J. Nikolas building near 28th Avenue and Washington Boulevard in Bellwood, authorities said.
The investigation of the crash, which happened just down the street from Bellwood’s Village Hall and Fire Department, is continuing.
In an interview Saturday, Bellwood Mayor Andre Harvey said the ambulance caught fire. Firefighters arrived quickly and extinguished the blaze.
Williams and Wesley were taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, and Marshall was sent to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities said Illinois State Police were called in to attempt to reconstruct the events of the crash.
Harvey said he can’t remember anything like this happening, particularly with an ambulance and given how many people died.
“Our detectives are still aggressively working the case,” he said.
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