Floyd Boens’ last conversation with Charice Rush was about how she would be celebrating her 37th birthday. Hours after their conversation, a vehicle she was riding in early Sunday was going the wrong way when it collided with a CTA bus, ultimately ending her life.
Floyd Boens’ last conversation with Charice Rush was about how she would be celebrating her 37th birthday. Hours after their conversation, a vehicle she was riding in early Sunday was going the wrong way when it“I talked to her around 8 o’clock the night before, and she said she was going to a club to celebrate her birthday,” said Boens, Rush’s oldest brother. “I didn’t hear anything else from my sister until later when someone called me and told me she was in a bad car accident.
Just before 6 a.m., Rush, along with two friends, 29-year-old Dontrell Biggs and 32-year-old Christina Biggs, were in a Dodge Journey heading northbound in the 4400 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive when the car made a sudden U-turn and struck a CTA bus head-on, according to Chicago police. Rush was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said. Dontrell Biggs, who was driving, was taken to the hospital in critical condition. His sister, Christina Biggs, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was also listed in critical condition, police said.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyA longtime friend of Rush’s said she had called him the day of her birthday to invite him to celebrate with her, but she wasn’t able to reach him. “She called me because I had texted her happy birthday, but I was at work,” said Antoine Ware. “I never got the chance to call her back.”
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