Crime & Safety

Deadly Drunken Crash Gets Driver 7 Years: Court Supervision

An Orland Park man getting a seven-year sentence for killing a nurse in a fatal crash is just one of the stories in this week's Court Supervision.

By Joe Hosey
 

An Orland Park man getting a seven-year sentence for killing a nurse in a fatal crash is just one of the stories in this week's Court Supervision.

Nearly a year ago, Matthew Senica of Orland Park ran a red light and crashed into a car driven by a nurse on her way to work at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

The nurse, 51-year-old Heidi Roseen of Lockport, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and pronounced dead at the hospital where she worked.

After almost a full year of court hearings, Senica, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated drunken driving. He took a seven year prison sentence but has already served 324 days of it in the Cook County jail.

Here's what else was going on in the area's courthouses:

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