Posted on 08/13/2025 9:31:01 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The mother of former WNBA player Sophie Brunner was killed in a crash in Illinois on Saturday, Aug., 9, after she was hit by a driver with a history of DUIs who was in the country illegally, authorities said.
At 12:38 p.m., deputies in Stephenson County said they responded to a head-on crash on Illinois Route 26 near Oneco Road and found Darcy Connolly-Brunner and Rolando Ico-Choc, both dead at the scene.
Ico-Choc, a 30-year-old Guatemalan national was traveling southbound on Illinois Route 26 North when he entered the northbound lane and crashed into a Ford Edge driven by Connolly-Brunner, the Stephenson County Sheriff's Office said.
As part of the investigation, deputies are examining whether alcohol impairment by Ico-Choc may have been a contributing factor in the crash, police said. There is no indication that Connolly-Brunner was impaired.
Ico-Choc has had multiple prior DUIs and been banned from driving, the New York Post reported. State Sen. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport, said Ico-Choc had been on Homeland Security's radar.
"A woman who dedicated her life to her family and her community was killed in road daylight by a man who never should have been in this country or on the road," Chesney said in a statement.
Chesney blamed Illinois' lax immigration laws that prohibit local cops from working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for Connolly-Brunner's death.
"Over the last few years, this man was shielded by systems that provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants and are more focused on allowing criminals to walk free than on protecting Illinois citizens," Chesney said. "I am not going to sit by silently while dangerous repeat offenders who are in this country illegally are given free rein to destroy lives."
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I was nearly killed when an illegal immigrant from Guatemala ran over me...what is going on with that country?
The scum crossing our boarders are the cast offs of mexico, central and south America and the third world as well as china, africa and many enemy moslem nations and groups paid for by soros like billionaires using their money to attack the American people in an undeclared war. And to be sure it is a war with real causalities (VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS MEMORIAL) http://ojjpac.org/memorial.asp.
These cowardly attackers are assisted by our own quislings, collaborators who are paid and self retarded idealistic fellow travelers. Many are communists, socialists and or just plain fascists. That includes the woke, demoRATs, liberals and the NGO’s that until recently were funded by usaid and the democratic party.
One of them killed my cousin. He skipped over the border.
This was a friend of mine’s wife. Six children, plus grandchildren.
Are Guatemalans worse drivers than the Chinese, even?
Just driving like he does back home.
How low was his bail ?
What continues to piss me off is Local News stations in Texas, when reporting on things like an intoxication manslaughter suspect, the ones with 4 names for their name, makes no mention whatsoever of their immigration status, nor do they allude to it.
As a citizen, this is what I want to know.
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