Article: Mental illness cited in fatal police chase

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The Illinois woman who died in a car crash Sunday after leading police on a high-speed chase had a mental illness for which she wasn't taking her prescribed medication, police said. Rose Marie Hurley, 44, of Mokena, Ill., walked into the lobby of a motel she was staying at in East Hazel Crest, Ill., on Saturday night wearing only a bed sheet and fanny pack and asking for muffins. She returned to her room, then ran out of the motel shortly after the fire alarm went off, said East Hazel Crest Police Chief Ray Robertson.

Surveillance footage showed her loitering near the fire alarm outside her room. Her ex-husband later told ...

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