McHenry woman charged in hit-and-run of Island Lake man ‘left him for dead,’ prosecutor said

A McHenry woman charged with fatally striking a young man with her car in September didn’t stop or call police after the crash, had been drinking in bars earlier that night and afterward “concealed” her vehicle in her boyfriend’s garage, authorities alleged Tuesday during the woman’s initial court appearance.

Christine S. Eilers, 50, of was arrested Monday in connection to the Sept. 27 hit-and-run death of Austin Stanek, 24, according to a release from the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office. Eilers is charged with felony counts of failure to report a crash involving death and leaving the scene of a crash involving death, court records show.