A jury acquitted a Highland woman Wednesday for striking and killing a 21-year-old pedestrian.
Lisa Damico, 52, was charged with reckless homicide and four misdemeanors. She faced up to six years in prison in Tyler Scheidt’s Aug. 18, 2021 death.“Ms. Damico has expressed personally her sympathies to the Scheidt family,” her lawyer Russell Brown said after the verdict.“This was an accident,” he said. “The evidence was clear she had some form of a medical issue.”
Authorities also charged her with reckless homicide after running a red light just before 9 a.m. Jan. 30, 2022 near the Highland Meijer, killing Socorro Keresztes, 70, of Munster. A crash investigator estimated Damico was driving at 93 mph, according to court records. That trial is scheduled for Dec. 11.
She didn’t remember anything, but remembered to go back to the police station to give a statement, Anderson said. Anderson also on Tuesday got Damico to admit on the stand that she didn’t want to tell law enforcement about her epilepsy because she knew she could lose her license. When asked why she got defensive when an officer asked her about it, she said, “He’s not a doctor.”Anderson argued Wednesday it didn’t “matter” whether there was a possibility she had a seizure. Intentionally driving with a debilitating medical condition was “inherently reckless”.
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