Motorcyclist dies after crash in Mount Prospect

A 22-year-old Mount Prospect man is dead after a motorcycle crash late Thursday.

Mount Prospect police were called to a home on the 900 block of South Elmhurst Road just after 9 p.m. for reports of a single-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle, according to authorities.

The motorcyclist was taken to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, where he was pronounced dead just after 10:20 p.m., according to a Cook County medical examiner’s office report.

The medical examiner’s office identified the motorcyclist as Alexis Martinez.

Mount Prospect police said Martinez was going south on Elmhurst Road when he lost control of the motorcycle, left the road and was thrown. Martinez was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

Elmhurst Road was closed until about 1:20 a.m. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.