‘You can’t possibly imagine.’ Family talks about woman who was killed by SUV driver who hit her, then circled and hit her again

Birthday dinners were an important tradition for Zoraleigh Ryan.

“No matter how old you are ... it’s just something she always did with us,” said Ryan’s older daughter Amber Logue.

Last week, Ryan celebrated her youngest daughter Shannon turning 20 with a dinner at a steakhouse in downtown Chicago. The two left the restaurant and were walking down Hubbard Street about 11 p.m. Aug. 10 when an SUV drove straight at them, struck them, circled the block and hit Ryan a second time, killing her.

“It is gut-wrenching,” Logue said. “You can’t possibly imagine what would possess this person to just say, ‘Hey, let me just try to kill these two people on this corner.’ All they were doing was standing outside waiting on an Uber, that’s the only reason they were standing right there.”