Teen charged in August crash that killed two South Elgin High School students
A 17-year-old girl faces reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence of drugs charges for an August crash that killed two South Elgin High School students.
Aanomeya Jacqueline D. Henry, of the 900 block of Cookane Avenue in Elgin, was indicted on two counts each of reckless homicide and reckless driving. She also faces four counts of aggravated driving under the influence of drugs.
The Kane County state’s attorney’s office charges that Henry was driving under the influence of marijuana and did not have a valid license at the time of the crash.
According to authorities, Henry was driving a blue Honda Civic with three passengers north on Route 25 when she began to turn left onto Kenyon Road, failing to yield to an oncoming dump trunk. The truck hit the car and pushed it into a cornfield.
Kamorra Campbell, 17, of Bartlett, and Tahlulay Henry, 16, of Elgin, died in the Aug. 31 crash. Authorities said Tahlulay Henry was the younger sister of Aanomeya Jacqueline D. Henry. A third passenger, identified by school officials at the time of the crash as Elizabet Esparza, was taken to an area hospital with injuries. .
The dump truck flipped on its side, and the driver suffered minor injuries.
The crash occurred around 7 a.m. a little less than a mile from South Elgin High School, where the four girls attended. In the days after the crash, Elgin Area Unit District 46 made social workers and counselors available to students grieving the loss of their friends.
Aanomeya Jacqueline D. Henry is not being detained pending trial. However, Kane County Judge Salvatore LoPiccolo imposed a 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. curfew for her and told her she could not leave the state without the court’s permission, must refrain from drug or alcohol use, must submit to random drug testing, cannot have contact with the surviving victim and cannot drive without a license.
Henry’s next scheduled court date is at 9 a.m. Jan. 26.