A man killed in a hit-and-run Saturday in Antioch Township has been identified as a 52-year-old Antioch resident, and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office appears to be homing in on the type of vehicle involved.
Coroner Dr. Howard Cooper said Monday that the victim, who was struck while walking along Grass Lake Road Saturday night, was Breck Beckett. After an autopsy Monday morning, Cooper said Beckett died due to “multiple traumatic injuries sustained from being struck by a motor vehicle.”
That vehicle that struck him, according to the Sheriff’s Office, may be a Suzuki Vitara or a Suzuki Sidekick.
Sgt. Christopher Covelli said those models are mid-sized SUVs, and that if any residents have information about the accident, the vehicle or have seen a damaged SUV fitting that description, they are asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at 847-549-5200.
Covelli said investigators with the Sheriff’s Office Technical Crash Investigations Unit do not have information yet on the color of the vehicle involved. He said the determination of the vehicle make was based on evidence left behind by the vehicle involved.
Evidence also suggests that the victim was walking on the roadway, not the shoulder, when he was struck, although he was found critically injured on the north shoulder of West Grass Lake Road east of Sunset Drive, according to reports.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Beckett was transported to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
Cooper said toxicology test results on Beckett are pending.
