Mourners visit the site Monday of a fatal crash at 85th Court and 89th Street in Hickory Hills, where four teens from Justice died. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

       The driver of a sport utility vehicle injured in a Saturday afternoon crash that killed four passengers faces criminal charges in juvenile court, Hickory Hills police said Monday.

       Four teens, all under the age of 18 and residents of Justice, were killed after the sport utility vehicle they and two other people were in went airborne and struck a tree, slicing the vehicle in half, authorities said.

       Flowers and candles are arranged in a memorial at the site of a fatal crash in Hickory Hills in which four teens were killed. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

       Mourners visit the site of a fatal crash at 85th Court and 89th Street in Hickory Hills. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

       Destiny Giera, 16, Nathaniel Phillips, 17, Omarion Rieves, 17, and Jemerrio Rieves, 15, were pronounced dead Saturday following the crash, which occurred just before 2:30 p.m. near 89th Street and 86th Avenue.

       Two other people in the vehicle, including the 17-year-old driver, were injured and hospitalized but have since been released, according to Hickory Hills police Chief Charles Hobart. They also live in Justice, he said.

       Hobart said the driver, who is not identified, is being charged with reckless homicide and traffic citations.

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       In a news release, Hobart said the SUV was traveling east on 89th Street “an extremely high rate of speed, in what we believe was an attempt to go airborne over the crest of the hill at 86th Avenue.”

       A witness told police the vehicle did go airborne then hit a tree on the north side of 89th Street and split in half.

       Handwritten messages left at the site of a fatal crash at 85th Court and 89th Street in Hickory Hills. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

       Giera was pronounced dead shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday at Advocate Aurora Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn while Jemerrio Rieves died shortly after 7 p.m. at the hospital, according to the medical examiner.

       Omarion Rieves and Phillips were pronounced dead later that night at the hospital, and all four deaths were ruled an accident as a result of injuries suffered in the crash, according to the medical examiner.

       mnolan@tribpub.com

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