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A mother of two was killed just blocks from her home, her stunned boyfriend standing next to her, when she was hit by a piece of a gargoyle that broke off the tower of a historic church in the South Loop on Thursday.
The decorative stone piece fell from the Second Presbyterian Church in the 1900 block of South Michigan just after noon, hitting Sarah Bean, 34.
Bean, of the 2000 block of South State, was waiting to cross the street with her boyfriend, Lance Johnson, when it happened. They were heading out to lunch, her family said.
“She was walking with Lance, and they said something fell. It’s horrible,” said Bean’s sister-in-law Candice Willis. “It really just came out of nowhere.”
“He was trying to get cars to stop to help, but they kept going. They must have thought he was a crazy person. He stepped into traffic and one of the cars honked at him, and he threw his umbrella into the air.”
“She was just lying there with her head split open,” she added, referring to Bean.
Authorities said she died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Michael Willis, Bean’s brother, rushed to the hospital, where he was able to see her before she died.
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