A Cook County judge on Wednesday released a Rolling Meadows man on electronic monitoring while he awaits court proceedings after he was charged with reckless homicide for striking a car and killing a 14-year-old passenger in the West Ridge neighborhood last January.

Judge Ankur Srivastava denied the state’s petition to detain 25-year-old William Andrade pending trial and placed him on electronic monitoring with set hours of movement allowed for work. Andrade was arrested in West Ridge on Monday, authorities said..

Prosecutors claimed Andrade was behind the wheel of a 2013 Ford Fiesta that “blew through a stop sign” at the intersection of North Albany Avenue and West Rosemont Avenue around 12:16 a.m. on January 30. Andrade’s vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, struck a 2024 Acura

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